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Discussion on: Five advice for a developer settling into a new team

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Arit Developer

I certainly concur with your "Update onboarding documentation" point.

That is actually the first task I accomplished at my first-ever dev job (post bootcamp). I introduced a color-coded system to our New Laptop Setup docs: terminal commands were orange monospaced font, expected output was dark green, possible error messages were red, etc.

We've had 4 more devs join the department after me, and each of them gave me great feedback about how easy it was to navigate the docs.

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Darren Vong

That's so awesome - top kudos to you! 🙌 I appreciate a good set of documentation that are clear and well maintained. It can help so much considering you'll be so overwhelmed with lots of new information whenever you start a new job, so having that solid reference really can help put new starters at ease imo.