dtnewman and bruce511 made a lot of the points I was going to make to get the job, only better. I'll emphasize again on your very full-time job now is to get a job in the field.
If you implement that, you will get it.
When you get the job, here are a few pointers that will help you ramp up:
On taking notes. When you're told something, or receive a remark, make sure to make a note and learn from it whether it's a mistake, or a colleague showing you something useful, or a task you must accomplish.. don't be told things twice or worse. Be on the ball and reliable:
Remote work, use existing tooling and build our own. Jitsi videos, record everything, give access to everyone so they can reference them and go back to them, meetings once a week or two weeks to align:
When you get the job, here are a few pointers that will help you ramp up:
Understanding codebases:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19924100
Testing pipelines, scaffolding, issue templates:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26591067
Making the most out of meetings and leveraging your presence:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22873103
Product development:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22827841
Giving a damn:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20356222
If I disappear, what will happen:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25008223
Consulting, understanding the problem your "client", who can be your manager, has:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24972611
On taking notes. When you're told something, or receive a remark, make sure to make a note and learn from it whether it's a mistake, or a colleague showing you something useful, or a task you must accomplish.. don't be told things twice or worse. Be on the ball and reliable:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24209518
Product, architecture, and impact on the team:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24503365
Onboarding new hires to a codebase, what if it were you, improve code:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22860716
Tips to learn from videos:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22710623
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22723586
Communication with the team:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21598632
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21614372
Reduce information asymmetry, template for taking minutes of meetings to dispatch to the team:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21427886
More meeting notes. Reply to a person who had trouble talking in corporate meetings:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20323660
Communication, alignment:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24177646
Useful things for the team and product that add leverage:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21808439
Management involvement as a spectrum:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22715971
Researching topics:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25922120
Keeping up with a firehose of information:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26147502
Fractal Communication: communication that can penetrate several layers of management and be relevant to people with different profiles and skillsets:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26123017
Remote work, use existing tooling and build our own. Jitsi videos, record everything, give access to everyone so they can reference them and go back to them, meetings once a week or two weeks to align:
-https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26179539
Write better. Always.