Two weeks between signing and my start date. What did you actually do with that time?
Offer's signed, last day at the old place is Friday, and then I've got two full weeks.
My instinct is to cram, because their stack has two things I've barely touched. But I've also been told the first month is drinking from a firehose regardless and I should turn up rested instead of half-prepared and already tired.
For those who've done this a few times: did pre-studying actually help, or did you learn all of it on the job anyway and just lose two weeks of your life to anxiety?
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AnonymousAnon If you're going to study anything, learn how their code gets from a laptop to production. Not the language — the deployment story, the review process, where the tests run. That's the thing that made me feel useless for my first three weeks, and no tutorial covers it.
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AnonymousAnon Did this last year. Spent the full two weeks on their stack and maybe 70% of it was wasted, because the way a company uses a tool is nothing like the tutorials. What did help was skimming their engineering blog and public docs so I knew the vocabulary in meetings. Otherwise: rest.