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Episode 361: Get git and non-tech ramping up

Soft Skills Engineering

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The Importance of Balance in Learning a New Language

I think unless there's explicit expectations set by the company that you will join and kind of do nothing except learn the stack, you want to avoid looking like you're doing nothing except learning the stack. You should still be able to get something done as a software engineer new to the stack. There should be some kind of easy tasks picked out for you or that you could find if they aren't prepped for you. The other point I wanted to make is there is a, so there's the tech stack, right? The stuff, I don't know, you go somewhere they do Java, go somewhere else, they also do Java. Everything else is going to be totally different.

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