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Surely this is the baseline? If you hadn't contributed significant changes in the first three months and I was your line manager I probably would have failed your probation. I wouldn't expect you to be at maximum productivity by this point but I would be expecting you to make substantive contributions appropriate to your skill level and experience within this time.

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I am baffled by this. It has to be so different between fields and companies.

At 2nd job it took 5 months until the first commit. At my 3rd like 4 months.

Getting up to speed and not being a net time sink for the coworkers, like 8 months on my 2nd job even though I did kinda the same thing in my first job. About 5 months at my third job.

This also make me have a hard time understanding how job hoppers are valued at all.

But reading your comment I realize some companies work completely differently.

5 months to the first commit!

At my last job I had a small bugfix (a one liner but still a bug) committed on my first day, PRed and merged by the end of my second day. That job was the definition of hit the ground running but still. Damn.

Ye, automotive ECU programming, 5 months. The 3rd one industrial plant controller software, 4 months. Both one-liners if I remember correctly.

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