One of my mentors, a former Fortune 500 CEO turned business school professor, told me it takes 2 years for an employee to become full trained in a job. I've fou

One of my mentors, a former Fortune 500 CEO turned business school professor, told me it takes 2 years for an employee to become full trained in a job. I've found that to also be true for technical jobs. I've also found that it takes about 6 months to start understanding the system without hand holding from a manager or senior developer. To get up to speed, I'd recommend starting with the smallest projects first: simple bug fixes, pair programming, and doing some support work. That will get you seeing how the software is used and which lines of code correspond to the different pieces of software. You can move on to bigger projects once you get your feet under you. I wrote more about getting up to speed at a new job on my blog: https://www.climbuptheladder.com/how-to-succeed-in-a-new-job/ https://www.climbuptheladder.com/how-to-succeed-in-a-new-job....