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This is totally ripped-off from Rent The Runway's version

You, the new Stitch Fix engineer, should strive to be able to be able to answer these questions on your own. If you don’t know the answers, we, the non-new engineerings, have failed to help you.

Questions by end of your first week

  • Who should be the first person I ask help of?
  • Can I run Spectre and look at data I got from my database dump?
  • Am I up on multithreaded.stitchfix.com via a PR that I made?
  • What’s our general dev workflow? e.g. PRs, merging, CI, etc.
  • What are the high level problems my team is solving?
  • How do we model our inventory, at a high level?
  • What are the different engineering teams?

Questions by end of your second week

  • Have I shipped a change to production and emailed the warehouse user community?
  • What conventions are there around how we write Rails code?
  • When do we write unit vs browser tests?

Questions by end of your third week

  • What resources are there to examine my code in production?
  • When should I write a design doc vs a WIP PR vs a mostly-done PR?
  • Why does my team also own finance?

Questions by end of your four week

  • What do we use UserVoice for?
  • If something is wrong on production, where do I look?
  • What is our vision for our application architecture?
  • At a high level, how does a fix get picked, packed, and shipped?
  • At a high level, how does returns work?
  • Am I working on a larger project that doesn’t require day-to-day support from my mentor?
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