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Advice for new engineers (programming.dev)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi! I hope all is well. I am loving this instance and all the communities so far! As I am a new grad software engineer who is gonna start working in the next month, I was wondering if there are some tips, advice and some nuggets of wisdom you want to pass to this clueless person making this post lmao.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

For logging what you do, basically if there is some document they give you just update the incorrect parts. If there is not a document just write down things you do. Something as simple as,

Install Java 17 via blah
Set up such and such tool
Add the alias xxx since everyone on the team uses it
When you get xxx error do yyy to resolve it

Essentially there are many things people only need to do once per computer so they forget how they set it up.

As for making friends, just relax and it will happen over time. You do need to be somewhat careful, yes. Topics like politics and religion generally aren't good ones to bring up. Things like what media you're consuming (like shows and movies) is a good topic. Questions about children is another good one that seems to happen a lot. Basically if it's a topic of conversation that is likely to divide people in an antagonistic way then you should avoid it. Questions about opinions in general are fine even though people disagree, it's just with some things like politics and religion the conversation can get too heated. Food is another great topic to talk about.

Basically you'll find topics that people like and then you can talk about them.

Be careful not to overshare about personal details in your life. It's sort of hard to determine where the line is because I think opening up with coworkers you've know for a while is fine.