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Discussion on: After you start a new job as a software developer/engineer, how long it took before you feel you are very productive?

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Adam Wood

I think it depends entirely on what you're stepping into on a job.

We have a huge custom product at work that was started 20+ years ago (classic asp) with on going development and I still don't feel very productive doing any coding on it even after 10 years. It's not that I don't know the language, it's just too complicated and too big of a product. We primarily let one guy do most of it because no one can learn it.. and now that it's being sunsetted we rejoice!

On the other hand I turned out my first soup to nuts product in about 2 months when I started. In retrospect it's a total piece of junk since it was dev'd in a "trial by fire" setting in a language I had to learn on the fly, but it's still in use these 10 years later.