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joeyhops

851

4y

Sounds rough, I remember when covid first hit and everything was completely locked down... I almost lost my mind 😅 Luckily my office opened up again, so I'm lucky in that regard. Honestly, when I was going through that time, I wish I had brought up how I felt to my team. I've always maintained a very strict division of business and personal issues, but we're all human, it's rarely ever so black and white. If they're not actually robots, they'll understand where you're coming from.
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SortOfTested

20896

4y

Just cash the checks and see how you feel on a few months. Ideally wait til you have a year and then bounce to something better if it doesn't improve.
2

rox79

846

4y

actually I enjoyed a bit working from home. Yes I have same issues like you that when stuck help literally means no help or figure out yourself so nothing its just sleep late at night and yeah figure out yourself :P
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carboneum

71

4y

I know how you feel. I was in the same situation. I can suggesgt you to break stuff in smaller units and try to understand each of them one by one. When the base is wrote shitty this can take really long. If that takes to long then, search for a important part of the application and try to back debug the whole processes, for example you come to the point where you see the end product of some calculation that is important? Try to find the part in code that is responsible for this result. Then go from this point backwards, look for the stuff that calls this function and then try to get the information that was sent to the part where you see the actual result. That helped me a lot to understand the codebase. Trust me, you will be in an simmilar situation again in future. Understanding code that other people wrote is a very valuable ability. Often you will have to do it without further instructions.
1

Root

82508

4y

Are you my coworker?
Do ducks mean anything to you?

This rant seriously sounds *exactly* like my situation.
2

AlmondSauce

16395

4y

Remote onboarding is hard, both for you and the employer. The normal "sit with me at my desk and walk me through stuff" type onboarding obviously isn't possible, and doing it over a conference call is never really the same.

The bad news is that this is likely to be the case, to some degree, wherever you go. Real world code bases are complicated and often crappy, and dealing with people remotely often makes them seem robotic.

The good news is that most good places are aware of this, and they're not expecting you to get up to speed in days or even weeks. There's also strategies you can take to improve things, such as:

- Set yourself small, meaningful goals for the day, and work as much as you can out by yourself in that day. Make a note of all the questions you need to ask someone.
- Try to have calls once a day where you can ask about anything you're stuck with.
2

ThorE

60

4y

I started a new job just before 'rona hit, and the difference between remote and at the office is massive when you're new.

My colleagues are great, and my boss is absolutely following up, but it does sometimes feel like you're talking with walls and get left on the deep-end a lot, probably because you can't just poke your head to your neighbor and ask. Chats, though a lot less formal than emails, still have a certain formality to them that poking your head at your neighbor doesn't have I feel.
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AlmondSauce

16395

4y

- Try to pick simple tickets you can work on, or can try to work on. I often find they're a much better way of learning a codebase than randomly looking around it.
- Take loads of notes, and then write them up on a wiki / confluence somewhere for other new starters - this is a great exercise for you, but something the rest of your team will likely appreciate too!

There's no magic bullet here, and the advice doesn't mean it's not tough, and not hard work. But it is usually possible to get there. While you can jump if it's really bad, I wouldn't so so on a whim, as you may find you're then just starting over with the same situation somewhere else.
4

qwwerty

1143

4y

fun fact: our team chatroom went more quiet with remote/home office.

Minimum of jokes, almost no discussions about current events, 40 ppl in the chatroom essentially dead. One might object, that people avoid posting non-work related stuff when on home office to avoid accusations about not working. But this is a trend I'm noticing past couple years. Amount of fun within the team diminished every year and the mass home office essentially killed the remaining communication.
2

kiki

35217

4y

It doesn’t matter if this company good or not in reality. All that matters is your personal feelings. If you personally have a bad gut feeling about this company, you should quit. There is no need to stay and try to make them better. Doesn’t worth it, there is plenty of fish in the sea.

There is no organization on earth that can return you your mental health back in exchange for money. It doesn’t exist.
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Midnight-shcode

4644

4y

if the codebase is huge, don't try to understand it whole. just take a task, trace the logic/flow thread related to that task, modify it as needed, and move on to the next task.
0

electrineer

30335

4y

@carboneum the first step would be to break your comment to smaller units to understand it

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