Onboarding to a new company is BS
I have never had a good on boarding experience. There is so much to learn and you are expected to come up to speed in a month or two. They will say “we don’t expect you to be fully up to speed for 5/6 months” but then judge you for only being 80% productive in the first month. Every new company seemingly has a whole new tool set and while developer skills carry over, individual tooling needs to be relearned, naming and style conventions, the way bugs are handled, or pipeline issues, or ops meetings, etc etc etc. It’s beyond tiring having to start from scratch at each new company
Which companies have you onboarded at OP?
Principles remain the same. You take a small project and learn things required to complete it on the go. Then you deepen your knowledge over time. No need to learn each and every tool and start using them only afterwards.
Agree. Every fucking tech stack should be standardized. Does a plumber need to learn new fucking tools every two years to plumb?
Your other option is to stay at Amazon. Nothing more to say.