What kind of tasks should I work on as an onboarding engineer?

• Get quick wins across the first month or so and then shift into the meatier, larger projects
• Quick wins will let you acclimate yourself to the overall lifecycle of making production changes, which is an important engineering foundation to have
• Another aspect to consider is team respect. Respect is gotten by generating outcomes, which quick wins obviously let you do, well, quickly.
• You can use these smaller tasks to show your stuff. Back when I was at Instagram, a senior Android engineer joined my team and immediately won the respect of all the other Android engineers by going super deep on a tricky Android bug that was stumping everyone. This was just a 1-2 day task, which they were able to use to show a very impressive amount of depth.

For more great resources around effective onboarding, I recommend these:

• [Masterclass] How To Succeed At A New Team Or Company As A Software Engineer
• "What is the most effective way to onboard yourself to a new team's domain?"
• "How can I pick up other tech stacks more quickly at Meta?"