My First Day

Up early again this morning with some extra time, so I thought I'd share about my first day.

Lots of orientation stuff, as you'd imagine, but it was pretty cool all around. First thing we met with our mentors, and mine is a guy I'll call Immanuel. He's been working at Epic for seven years on my application, Beacon--which is the oncology app--and we'll be working on the same team and actually sharing an office for some time. Luckily, he seems to be a really cool guy. By the end of the day, we actually had quite a bit of a rapport going. That was definitely the most exciting fact about the day.

Or shared office is in the building named Fomalhaut (pronounced foh-muhl-hawt), the New York City themed building, and we've got a large window with a view of a rooftop garden. It's pretty sweet. We're a pretty small application, so my whole team is basically in my hall and the one over, and my team lead is just around the corner. I'm the only new member of the team, at least on the Quality Assurance (QA) side, so I'll get to move into an already well-functioning team, I imagine, which I think is a pretty cool way to do it. I know Michelle and others are part of teams adding several members.

Otherwise, we started out the day with the basics you'd imagine, getting to know the companies principles, ten commandments, and it's culture. I can do a post on those later since I don't have much time now. Then we had an overview of how epic worked, followed by tutorials on system access, the training process, our computers and epic web pages, plus good times with tax and work ID forms.

That's about it really, but overall I was pretty stoked.

Hopefully I'll get to pass along more info soon. Thanks for reading,

Andrew