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Re:Ask HN: How to onboard yourself to a new product/industry... by spacecadet on Thursday March 21, 2024 @08:12AM (#39777535)
Talk to people. Interview your entire team, with detailed questions, avoid solutioning out of context, just listen. Next extend those interviews to stakeholders your team supports- go as deep or as high as you can, adjust questions for context, execs? business/strategy questions, the janitor? the dirt questions... yes interview the cleaning crew...

Ive done these rounds at every job and 2 times I left that job immediately after the interviews.

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Re:Ask HN: How to onboard yourself to a new product/industry... by jstanley on Thursday March 21, 2024 @08:22AM (#39777619)
> I left that job immediately after the interviews.

Why?

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Re:Ask HN: How to onboard yourself to a new product/industry... by omarhaneef on Thursday March 21, 2024 @09:19AM (#39778183)
If you read between the lines, it would seem no one was keeping the place clean.
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Re:Ask HN: How to onboard yourself to a new product/industry... by spacecadet on Friday March 22, 2024 @07:08AM (#39789444)
Well, when you want the cleaning crew to spy for you, you better get chummy with them. My parents were janitors, so I got a start point at least. We're all just cleaning crews in the end.
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Re:Ask HN: How to onboard yourself to a new product/industry... by hsjsbeebue on Friday March 22, 2024 @07:16AM (#39789500)
It is sewerage all the way down.
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Re:Ask HN: How to onboard yourself to a new product/industry... by spacecadet on Friday March 22, 2024 @11:16AM (#39791536)
You would know
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Re:Ask HN: How to onboard yourself to a new product/industry... by spacecadet on Friday March 22, 2024 @07:02AM (#39789414)
Why? none ya biznuts man. Read between the lines, I talked to people and it was a dumpster fire. Interviews are lies. Always treat hiring as YOUR opportunity, interview THEM.
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Re:Ask HN: How to onboard yourself to a new product/industry... by hsjsbeebue on Friday March 22, 2024 @07:16AM (#39789496)
Sounds like you had FU money or can easily get into another job quickly.
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Re:Ask HN: How to onboard yourself to a new product/industry... by spacecadet on Friday March 22, 2024 @11:16AM (#39791550)
The assumptions. No FU money here- My luck is zilch buddy... many attempts and nothing but blood sweat and tears. My thing. I was homeless once... I dont give a fuck.
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