Graduated from college and day one in my first real job, I was handed a hardcopy of the MPEG-2 transport stream spec and told to read it and come back with questions.
>I was handed a hardcopy of the MPEG-2 transport stream spec and told to read it and come back with questions.
OK, but what did you have to do on the job with the spec after reading it? Did you also have to do a codec implementation in SW or what? Don't leave us hanging.
>That's how you onboard.
Yeah, 15-30 years ago, when professional experienced SW devs weren't dime a dozen. Valve would also hire people off the street who never wrote any SW to code on the original Half-Life. Those days are gone, after 10+ years of "learn to code" and ZIRP policies creating an oversupply of coders who now need to know a dozen programing languages, frameworks and buzzwords just to get a AI written rejection. Those were the days.
But alas, certain jobs in EE/embedded SW still work like this. You get to read and learn a lot of source code, requirements, specs, design documents and standards, before actually building things, plus a proper mentor to onboard you. At least those remaining jobs that haven't yet been offshored.
That's how you onboard.
OK, but what did you have to do on the job with the spec after reading it? Did you also have to do a codec implementation in SW or what? Don't leave us hanging.
>That's how you onboard.
Yeah, 15-30 years ago, when professional experienced SW devs weren't dime a dozen. Valve would also hire people off the street who never wrote any SW to code on the original Half-Life. Those days are gone, after 10+ years of "learn to code" and ZIRP policies creating an oversupply of coders who now need to know a dozen programing languages, frameworks and buzzwords just to get a AI written rejection. Those were the days.
But alas, certain jobs in EE/embedded SW still work like this. You get to read and learn a lot of source code, requirements, specs, design documents and standards, before actually building things, plus a proper mentor to onboard you. At least those remaining jobs that haven't yet been offshored.