Very good advice. Be a good guy / good employee, not just a strong technical contributor. Couple of qualifiers to: "Do a bit more if you can" - don't over-rea

Very good advice. Be a good guy / good employee, not just a strong technical contributor. Couple of qualifiers to: "Do a bit more if you can" - don't over-reach, doing stuff no-one's asked for could be a negative, and - don't be too pushy about "new ideas"; you might be right but as a new start you do not want to rub your colleagues up the wrong way until you've built a good track record and some respect within the org Edit - plus buy the team cakes and chocolate sometimes :-)