Building trust is so critical to a software...

Building trust is so critical to a software engineer's job. You need trusted relationships with those around you to work effectively together. The systems we build are complex, and it's easy to get stuff wrong even if you are very good at what you do. So we need to point out those mistakes constructively, which works best when teammates trust each other. " "" "And trust is simply consistency over time. This is why onboarding to a team always takes time; it's because building that trust with a team means being yourself consistently over time. " "" "While it may seem appealing to work overtime at first when joining a company to "catch up" and get up to speed faster, this sets up an interesting failure mode. Suppose that is how you start and build trust around that behavioral pattern. In that case, you have two not-so-great choices: (1) reduce your hours back to where you want to be, but breaking your consistency with others around you and therefore losing trust, or (2) continue burning yourself out. " "" "That is why I would always suggest to onboard to a team the way you want to work with that team long term, such that you can be consistent from day one #bendevtip

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