I have been working for a small startup since about April, and up until last week I was the only active developer. Recently we got some funding and hired 9 other developers that they have now placed me in charge of. This is a bit overwhelming at first. Do we have enough work for 10 people? How often do they need to check in? How much work should I assign them at a time?
These are not fun questions to answer. Because we are just starting getting everyone accustomed to our code base (which needs to be rewritten from scratch) I spend most of my time hunting through our legacy code to answer their questions about where things are. I also spend alot of time getting them up and running with their initial projects.
Point of story, I’m not doing as much actual developing as I would like to right now, but I hope this will change soon.
There will most likely be updates on here as to how this is progressing.
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