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What would you tell someone on their first day on the job?

Asked in AI. 2 answered from their own pages, in their own words.

Jean-Philippe LeBlanc

Not much of a scripted welcome speech, but here's what I've actually written down for someone new walking in. First real change: aim for production on day one, something small and genuinely theirs, because that forces the whole path to work: accounts, clone, build, tests, a review within the hour, and a deploy that does not wait for a release train. If your new employer can't offer that, ask why. Ask which constraint is real, because if a regulated step makes day one impossible, the honest answer is day three and a named reason, not "a few weeks". Get a named buddy and lean on them; their job is to be the person whose time you're allowed to waste. Keep a confusion log from day one, unfiltered, and expect the good ones to fix what you flag.

Phil White

Phil White keeps it concrete: don't wait around for documents, ship a pull request on day one. The advice is about a specific remote onboarding question

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