In a start-up, time is so precious that engineers have to move fast. The market is quickly changing, and the only way to survive is to get one's cut in market share, as early as possible. Uber headed to China. Not only does it have to occupy a high-end car sharing market, but also it has to compete with two strongest local competitors, who have just merged into one.
The pressure eventually lays all down all the way to the bottom engineers. My mentor does not really take out much time with me to help me get started, but is expecting me to move faster nearly on my own. My team leader expects me to learn faster though we both know it is lack of huge amount of necessary documents for one to bootstrap oneself fast. There is not even a good enough software development process, but engineers have to survive from such fact so they can succeed. In some sense there is a good reason to justify this: an engineer in a start-up should claim and value his ownership on a project, as much as he can. People need hands constantly, but interns are not always given enough time to learn what they need to learn before anything can be done. The only strategy so far as I can tell is to lean as you go.
There can be a lot to learn. It is a 3-month long interview, and the success is mostly on your own.
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