When I started, my direct manager took me on a walk. We visited about 20 different desks and had introductions and impromptu chats with various developers and

When I started, my direct manager took me on a walk. We visited about 20 different desks and had introductions and impromptu chats with various developers and product managers, putting the names to faces and expertises. Not all on the same team either, some were just people he knew well from various projects. This was a huge jumpstart for an introvert like me. In an online-only Slack environment there is the private team channel, and the big scary common channel where you are afraid to ask questions unless you tried to solve the problem by yourself first. Maybe a better online solution would help, a-la some magical VR space that Meta comes up with.