Starting at a new job or onboarding, a new colleague can be a challenging task.
When you're starting at a new job, you're likely going to be overwhelmed by HR sending you company information, while your new teammates sent you over invites to GitHub to check out your new projects. On top of that, you get your first issue assigned, which might result in a feeling that you directly need to deliver.
This week, we've onboarded a new engineer in our team. The most important thing for us is to make him feel welcome, giving him the time to adjust and read up on all kinds of documentation.
I've prepared an issue in which mocked JSON needs to be used to create a list view in our app. It's a great way for him to get to know the project without much pressure, as we told him to take it easy. In fact, there's no real deadline for this screen short-term.
If you have a new colleague joining your team, make sure to understand how difficult the first days can be. Try everything to make it easy for them and ask pro-actively whether everything is fine to create room for questions. This way, your new colleague will likely get up to speed sooner and feel much more at home.
This week's SwiftLee Weekly is full of articles related to the concurrency changes in Swift.
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