> Make a token commit day 1 or 2 to show you can and will deliver, even if just docs. Ensure you can go end-to-end on a real code PR week 1, even if a trivial one. Identify which area of code is most important for you to learn, vs not learn, and focus there.
Even if you are not on the management track, as a “senior” developer, your first goal is to understand the business, the organization, etc.
I would not be committing code until I had a good understanding of the “why”.
For a senior developer thinking about the leveling guidelines I’ve seen first hand and the ones that are publicly available, coding is not the highest value you should bring to the company.
If I were to priorities your bullet points it would be the second, third and then the first.
Even if you are not on the management track, as a “senior” developer, your first goal is to understand the business, the organization, etc.
I would not be committing code until I had a good understanding of the “why”.
For a senior developer thinking about the leveling guidelines I’ve seen first hand and the ones that are publicly available, coding is not the highest value you should bring to the company.
If I were to priorities your bullet points it would be the second, third and then the first.