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7 entries · 2 weeksWeek 3Week 2Meetings, Meetings, and Meetings. Industry insights, product and feature overviews. Engineering department overview: Low...Week 1I left the office after my first (half)-week excited and motivated. The team's warm welcome and my two onboarding buddie...Day 2 - Vision & Mission and DreamsLunch with both co-founders. Discussing the vision, mission, and the dream of what the company should become. Focus toda...Day 1 - be humbleStart time - 10:00 am. I got introduced to a warm, welcoming team. The current engineering team is offshore, distributed...Day 0 - getting readyEarly start — meeting with the headhunter, who presented me with this opportunity, for coffee to reflect on the intervie...Day -1 - the lead upThe dipping point... Culture > Strategy Pro-active > reactive Individual A = Individual B ... Working in startups ...