It's a well-known fact that time passes quickly when you're having fun, and boy, is time zooming by. My first week at Lumos Labs went by really fast. There was another software engineer who was starting on the same day as I was so we got introduced to each other pretty quickly. We would be hanging out with each other for the most part of the initial few days regarding administrivia.
Day one was mostly administrivia, a day filled with meetings. First up was my awesome boss, Chris, who is the Lead Engineer for the Rails Team. Lumos Labs is still pretty small (approximately 80 people) and we don't really have managerial positions but we are easing into that stage where some middle management is necessary and Chris is part of that transition. He basically gave me a brief overview of the engineering team in Lumos Labs and what my role would be on the team. I was to be working on the payments system with another Software Engineer, Anthony, who interviewed me last December, and a Product