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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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It depends as much on the place you are going as on you

The last place I worked their systems were a tangled complex mess and we figured it would take about 3 months before a perm member of staff could confidently deal with everyday problems

However, we used to occasionally hire contractors. They can't be training for 3 months. So we'd try and scope things so that they could be immediately productive: and on the whole this worked

Speaking more generally, in the ideal world new hires could be inducted in such a way that their early jobs are an education for the ways that a business does things