Remote Engineering Management: Managing an Engineering Team in a Remote-First World

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A. SunderlandRemote Engineering Managementhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8584-8_2

2. Onboarding

Alexandra Sunderland¹  

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Ottawa, ON, Canada

 

Back when I started my very first job as a software engineer, I had no idea what I was doing.

I had just turned 17 when I landed a position over the summer at a small self-funded local startup where I’d be building internal tools for the sales and marketing teams. I was using languages I didn’t know (JavaScript and Python) to build web applications, whereas I had come from a comfortable background of Java and Visual Basic where UIs were built via drag-n-drop. I didn’t know the first thing about building for the Web; ...