Six months? Kill me. If I can't join a new team and be a productive/contributing member within the first 2 months then I'm going to be looking for the door. I 1

Six months? Kill me. If I can't join a new team and be a productive/contributing member within the first 2 months then I'm going to be looking for the door. I 100% agree you don't want to go in guns blazing and most importantly PHRASING. Don't go in and tell people they are doing something wrong, make suggestions and ask questions like: "Hey I saw you are using X here, is there a reason you are using X instead of Y?" The response will be one of the following: 1. Oh, I didn't know about Y or I didn't know Y could do that 2. Yes we looked into Y but picked X because of A, B, C 3. X is just better, Y is stupid <- This is the mark of an insecure dev and you need to think long and hard about if you want to stay at the company Also be able to READ THE ROOM, if you respond the #2 with "Ahh but Y can do A, B, C as well..." and you aren't getting any traction then cut your losses.