Ask HN: How can I improve my onboarding in a company I just joined?
And the reason is because the person working on it had the database locally to their machine), and the database now exists in production remotely, so we have to download a clone of it (which is huge) in order for me to check things out. There's also no documentation for me to study.
The best thing I can do if I want to onboard myself (they haven't even assigned me issues to work on atm) is to read through the codebase on my own, which is one gigantic intimidating monolith and the entry point they had assigned was just a placeholder.
What can I do in my situation? I don't really want to throw everything out and call it quits because I really hurt for money and experience. I'm still a junior dev in terms of years of experience and I've been job seeking for 4 months and barely made it with the skin of my teeth, and in spite of my thirst for personal growth and quality environment the bills and rent won't pay themselves.
On top of that, I don't know whether I should start searching again if things don't improve or will this paint a giant target on me having people think like I'm a job hopping opportunist.
I guess my questions can be narrowed down to: 1. How can I speed-up my learning the codebase process when it's rough to get things going due to things outside my control? 2a. How long can I wait until things improve before I start applying again? 2b. If I start applying, should I list my latest experience of 1+ month on my resume?