Working in a corporate environment is a little foreign to me, so I'd like to ask those with much more experience: what do you do to onboard yourself when you join a new company? There's the stuff the company does, but I'm interested in the things that you do to ensure success with the new company/new role in the first day/week/month that you join the company.
For the first 25 minutes: ask them to tell you everything they think you should know. Take copious notes. Only stop them to ask about things you don’t understand. Always stop them to ask about things you don’t understand. For the next 3 minutes: ask about the biggest challenges the team has right now. In the final 2 minutes: ask who else you should talk to. Write down every name they give you. Repeat the above process for every name you’re given. Don’t stop until there are no new names.”