# A Happy New Employee

DevFeed: [A Happy New Employee](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/a-happy-new-employee-1981.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog//a-happy-new-employee>)

Published: 2020-02-07T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [SoundCloud Backstage Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/soundcloud-backstage-blog.md>)

Topics: [engineering-culture](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/engineering-culture.md>), [Microservices](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microservices.md>), [Cloud Native Ecosystem](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-native-ecosystem.md>), [site-reliability-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/site-reliability-engineering.md>), [Tooling](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tooling.md>), [Frameworks](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/frameworks.md>), [Back end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/backend.md>), [Front end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/frontend.md>)

Tags: [backend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backend.md>), [culture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/culture.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [engineering-culture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering-culture.md>), [frameworks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/frameworks.md>), [frontend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/frontend.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [microservices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/microservices.md>), [onboarding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/onboarding.md>), [sre](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sre.md>), [technology-stack](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/technology-stack.md>), [tooling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tooling.md>)

## AI overview

An iOS engineer describes the first six months at SoundCloud, focusing on engineering practices that made onboarding easier. Supportive culture, self-service exploration of code, documentation, and infrastructure, plus shared frameworks and scripts, helped the engineer learn quickly and contribute across many repositories and services.

## Source excerpt

My first six months at SoundCloud as an iOS engineer on the Recommendations team have just finished. In that time, I've already contributed...