The 5 Most Important Items in Your New Software Development Office

Aced the interview, hit the target salary, pocket full of shares? Here are some vital tips for your new ‘office life’.

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Office Working 101

The world of software engineering can be fun, exciting, and challenging — but it can also be humiliating, frustrating, and overwhelmingly disappointing.

It’s a rare event when an employer manages to align the stars just right for your first day — bringing a desk, chair, and computer into the same region of local spacetime is of a similar difficulty to finding a workable solutions to Einstein’s field equations where spacetime is made entirely of quark muffins and neutrino unicorns.

Here are five specific tangible items that you should make your own in any office environment — especially since after the current pandemic offices will be less populous thus even more competitive for the meagre resources that management has ordained you to fight over.

Pro tip: You can’t be there all the time to protect them¹. Plan ahead.

A Desk

You can sit with an iPhone, an iPad at a push, perhaps even a lap warming (or scorching if it’s Intel based) laptop for a time but sooner or later the dreaded RSI, or more importantly, looming ever present HR…