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My anecdotal opinion is that the first year it's important to show that you are productive. You cut the Jira tasks into extremely small ones and seem very productive to management because tickets get moved, but it's all smoke and mirrors (hell, you haven't seen half of the tech stack, and there is little documentation on the architecture most of the time).

A senior developer on the other hand might say they didn't do much because they think "it was just small things that I've done before". You really have to look at the commits.

Companies have been bankrupted because of the "let's just get two new ones"-mentality, not seeing that the lead time for developers to become relatively productive by knowing the ins and outs of large codebases is very, very long (for backend development, frontend is more cookie cutter).



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