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Your First Day/Week

Day 1

  • Show around office (Usually HR)
  • Setup work accounts, following the New Starter document provided by the Desktop Support team (Outlook, Jira, Gitlab, Slack, etc.)
  • Join/Get invited to relevant work channels in Slack:
    • Team channel (ask your manager)
    • Office channel
    • Tech department channel(#technology, ask your manager for an invite)
    • Developers channel (#developers, ask your manager for an invite)
    • Chapter Channel (#chapter-native-apps)
  • Confirm your VPN works correctly, if not ask for help in #desktopsupport channel. You will need this to be able to work on the codebase remotely.
  • Laptop setup & codebase setup - start reading through the project documentation.

Day 2 / 3

  • Continue codebase setup
  • Create Production & UAT (dev testing) accounts in the native apps (via signup form in app)
  • Review the General Guides section in the Wiki Sidebar
  • Review the Contributing guide
  • Get familiar with our past Decisions
  • Code Familiarisation RN Project Structure

Day 4 +