So when y'all start new jobs, how long does it normally take before you actually start working?

So far at the new thing, I've been 2 meetings outside of stand-up and done an assessment that they forgot to send me before making an offer. It's been a week

Entirely depends on the project, your overall experience, and your experience in the tech stack/domain your project has

In general, the Project Manager and/or Scrum Main ask you to participate in the standup meetings, work with fellow Devs to get an understanding of the project and also the internals, get your work machine setup in the first week. And then from the 2nd week onwards, small stories and/or defects which don't have a huge impact will be assigned and from 4th week or so, real stuff will begin

@asgs I've had such varied experiences it's crazy. One place I was pushing to prod on day one, another place basically nothing happened my first 6 months

@TheBeardedOne ah! Your employer where you pushed to production on day 1 (and fucked up everything) must have passed on the feedback to the other where you were made to sit idle

@asgs that would explain a few things

@TheBeardedOne man, employers are crazy and stupid

Just enjoy your time while you get it!

@asgs between all of us on this app, I'm fine with sitting idle, it's just that when they leave you sitting idle they still expect you to have something show for it

one place they took a month to even give me access to the code...

then the next week this lead dev asked me to complete something in 4 hours (over lunch) that she was given 2 weeks to do. so that started off on a bad foot. I ended up telling her it will be done when it's done (cuz I didn't even know the relevant code) and maybe that sent everything tumbling after that idk. I didn't want to commit to something when I can't be sure of it. just sounds like a disaster. ended up doing it in a day so I had figured it was no big deal but...

work? a few weeks. deliver a quantifiable amount? months. make profit? at least six months unless everyone else is slacking and I'm making a catastrophic mistake by raising expectations.

@TheBeardedOne I used to worry about that. Now I just report "I have no work assigned, so let me know if something needs doing"

And I keep saying that until I get something to work on, which usually takes a 2-3 days

@Hazarth based