Depending on the relative seniority of the level you’re hired at, and the company age/leadership experience, you may be called on to define answers to some of the questions below. Tread accordingly.

1. What separates great from good performance?
2. What might be the largest difference between two different engineering teams here?
3. What would be the biggest piece of advice all of you have for me?
4. What are the most common challenges faced by new team members here?
5. Which actions make new team members reach full productivity in weeks as opposed to months?
6. Are there any recent cultural changes I should be aware of?

A brief introduction to the background context behind the current problem's situation:

To determine the relative priority of this problem in contrast to that of many others, ask: What goes wrong if this remains unfixed after a finite amount of time?

Tracking trends of problem discovery sources helps us focus our efforts more precisely