Finally! The moment I got to know my colleagues as a brand new employee. During these evenings I felt the difference, the atmosphere was good! We had a drink, played card games, darts and occasionally the work came up but in a completely different way.
It was more about how we were doing as new colleagues and if we liked our jobs. Because I was not the only new employee who had gone along to Dev Days. Several colleagues asked if we were happy at Calibrate and if there were things that were disappointing, during these conversations we could discuss in a more relaxed atmosphere things that we were mulling over at the time. This would be about interactions with the client that had left an impression or things that had happened during a project, but which we thought about as a rookie colleague in corona times "this seems weird", but then just let it be. Because we had no reference point on how it should be.
The senior developers then explained to us in detail what had happened and how the normal course of events should be, but due to the circumstances of corona and many new colleagues, this sometimes slipped through the cracks.
We were told what the company wants to achieve in the future in terms of business, but also in terms of our personal growth. A growth path will be worked out based on conversations with us and the senior developers. In order to map out what we want to achieve and how we can tackle this together with the company. Knowing that Calibrate is so concerned with our well-being and growth was a big boost for me. It underlined once again that I had made the right choice for my first job.