Re:Onboarding Antipatterns
by Noumenon72 on Saturday June 10, 2023 @01:20PM
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This seems like the right thing to do. Lets the newcomer be useful and gets the documentation to have guaranteed recent knowledge. If it's an antipattern it's because too many people don't like documentation and don't update it.
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Re:Onboarding Antipatterns
by CoastalCoder on Saturday June 10, 2023 @01:33PM
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I've hit this. It's kind of a tragedy of the commons scenario:
If I take the time to fix the docs with a high certainty if accuracy, I get behind on other stuff with getting credit for the fix.
I guess it also comes down to what the cultural norms / expectations are. Some might see it as natural in a growing company, others might see it as selfishness at the expense of new employees.