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Re:Ask HN: How do you become productive in a new project as ... by grogenaut on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @03:32PM (#14404448)
I'd agree with this but I also do 1:1s with the rest of the engineers on at least a monthly basis. They use it as a sounding board, career advice, or general design meetings. The don't often happen but it gets them in the practice of talking to you over issues and other things. It also gets you a lot of insight into their thought processes and general issues of the team. I find this works better than just reviewing every single commit and commenting on them, it lets you get into the meta more. And it gets you there before the code is written so it removes the "but it's real close can't I just push" drive most devs have.

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