I joined amazon Alexa team and realized It could be better for me to ask some help for general structure to someone in the team. People are nice but little worried about Leadership principle whenever I try to ask for some help(don't get me wrong, I ask questions a lot but still feel this way..) Is it bad or giving disappointment to seniors if I ask them some tip?(any preferred/recommended method for me to understand how is the code working for our packages?) How do you guys understand such as this large code base when you newly join? Do you debug or Sys.out all classes and functions and run ? I heard general workflow but every seniors are saying a little bit differently! Please help this poor sde1!
Try on your own atleast 10 times before asking for help. That usually helps
Do you recommend any specific methods?
If you have any more new hires, just ask for toi for “new people” in the team.
Have a short meeting with some experienced engineer who also speaks your native language. I’ve had several Chinese colleagues speak to each other in Chinese and no one has issues as long as you’re able to help each other progress. Just make sure you provide good communication in English for your scrum updates, & other meetings :)
It is an EXTREMELY bad look if a junior new hire doesn't ask questions.
Yes, it does look bad to ask questions. It’s a sign of weakness
^ please read what iamletired wrote again. They mean the opposite of your comment D’s nuts. Great username though lol
It would help to learn to speak english. They probably aren’t understanding you
Ha..
@Bad advise he’s starting his career, if you can’t help just move on