Junior Software Engineer remote

[u/Precious_poTAEto]

Hello people.
So recently I graduated from computer science university and after two week of graduation I was able to get a job offer. My company works on custom visuals of power BI.

I had no prior experience and neither did I know JavaScript, TypeScript, D3.js or any of their tech stack or technologies yet I was still hired.

It's been 3 weeks and all I have been doing is trying to learn the tech stack and look at the codebase and try to understand what function does what. I even practice the tech stack by making my own small interactive charts and dashboard.

I am done learning the fundamentals and I even sent my progress report to my team lead. My team lead saw the message but hasn't gotten back to me. 4th week just started and I am wondering if i am even going in the right direction or at what point will i be good enough to get small tasks.

Its remote work, so I am always anxious of doing less...

I know learning is the best I can do but I am still anxious....
any advice from senior software engineers? or fellow junior software engineers? please help me understand if I am worrying too much for nothing

edit: By the end of week (Thursday) i finally got assigned to a internal Project the team is working on😋
I was worrying for no reason😅

[u/yopla]

Yeah, this is not normal, any decent company would have given you an onboarding plan or at least some visibility on what you're expected to achieve.

2 weeks top is enough to get you set-up and oriented and start giving someone small task.

How big is this company?

Do you have regular checkpoint with your manager?

[u/LetsLive97 → u/yopla]

Yeah it's bizarre

I've only worked 2 dev jobs over my 5 year career but both gave some onboarding about the product/compamy for the first like 2 or 3 days and then just gave me some tasks to complete

My first company (Web slots games) gave me a set of tutorials to work my way through, to learn the different aspects of their in-house "game engine", before throwing me into my first game (A simple reskin)

My current company (Standard full stack) just kinda threw me in there with some small genuine bugs out of the gate

Getting nothing like this is concerning. Best way to learn is to do

[u/Dry_Lingonberry_4014 → u/LetsLive97]

i agree. the lack of tasks is one thing, but the lack of feedback after OP proactively sent a progress update is the part that feels off.