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What is the advantage of quickly becoming effective? You'll probably only get promoted marginally faster, at best.

• DRMacIver 13y ago
  If your sole measure of advantage is promotion then yeah, feel free to kick back your heels and do whatever you want. Personally, I quite like to be doing useful work, and normal ramp-up times for people seem to be about 3-6 months, which if you work at a company for < 3 years can be as much as 10-20% of your time. More if you're switching between projects within a company. It's pleasant to not have to waste that large a percentage of your time getting up to speed.
• scrabble 13y ago
  Not being effective sucks. Do you enjoy the feeling of starting somewhere new or starting with a new project and not knowing what you're doing? The trick is to minimize that time so that you can: a] feel effective b] not have a long term, negative impact on your team's velocity.
• nasalgoat 13y ago
  I give new hires exactly one month to prove themselves now. I've found that giving more time does not increase the success rate of workers in any measurable way. Here's a good example - I hired two admins within a week of each other. The second hire had closed more tickets in two weeks than the first one did in three. The first was gone soon after.