Name: Onboarding Tips For Junior Engineers
Uploaded: 2024-03-18T18:57:36+00:00
Duration: 3 min 50 s
Description: Your goal as an entry-level engineer is to show autonomy after you've completed onboarding

Onboarding Tips For Junior Engineers

Your goal as an entry-level engineer is to show autonomy after you've completed onboarding. If you're an intern or new grad, you are not expected to know everything (or much of anything!).

- The most important trait for early career folks is to seek feedback and act on it! **Coachability** is an important criteria for you (this is, in fact, how many interns are judged).
- Don’t “solo carry” a project. Instead, create milestones to measure and show progress. 
- Pair programming is especially valuable for learning from coworkers and building relationships.

Your goal as an entry-level engineer is to show autonomy after you've completed onboarding

Almost every software engineer starts their full-time career journey here. The content here breaks down how you can start your career off with a splash and grow past this level as quickly as possible.

With how often software engineers change teams, it's crucial to be efficient at this. Learn how to get coding within a new codebase fast, build the proper relationships, and hit the ground running in general.

An internship is a period of work experience offered by an organization for a limited period of time. In software, a software engineer intern tends to have stronger importance with more competitive pay and real projects to work on.

A successful software engineer intern needs to know how to onboard, work with their manager, write good code, and communicate their projects well.