I understand the reluctance to work on the production code for an entire day. But like others have commented, I would rather do that and get a chance to see the

I understand the reluctance to work on the production code for an entire day. But like others have commented, I would rather do that and get a chance to see their end-to-end process rather than coming in on the first day and finding their dev environment is a complete mess. I've come in as the new guy on a project and been greeted with a zip file of the code base (already out of date). It was complete with hard links to the main developers personal test database running on his machine.