It is an old meme, but that said, a week to setup a dev environment is pretty ridiculous.
I try to have folks delivering business value even if very small within a week or two. I find it reduces a lot of new hire anxiety around performance if they can ship _anything_ relatively quickly.
Most of the companies I worked with/for won't even have the security credentials set up in a week to have access to anything. VPN, keys etc. So not much you can do the first week accept sit with others to get tours of the codebase, frameworks, best practices etc.
You’re probably not working in startups, then. If a new developer can’t push code to production on the first day in a company of <100 people then there’s something wrong. If you’re joining a big corporate with thousands of employees and regulatory obligations then sure, a week or more for security credentials is normal, but in a startup, a week is a terrible sign of dysfunction.
lmao right? My new hires spent the first week in corporate/domain training, then a few days getting situated, setup and stuff. Probably 2 weeks before I
"expect" a PR but even then the first few tasks are a gentle introduction.
