How long is an employee considered as new?

[Anonymous]

Curious how long a person can reasonably claim newness at a job? And how long is reasonable to give them time to train/catch on?

[Anonymous]

Depends on company policy. 90 days? Six months?

[Anonymous]

A year/full business cycle.

And make sure you are actually training them during their training time. You should have goals at 30/90 days, six months, and one year.

[Anonymous]

A full year where I work. I’m about a year and a half in and still feel pretty new.

[Anonymous]

Depends on the industry. Law firms? You're new for the first two to three years as an associate.

[Anonymous]

New Fed employees have a one-year probationary period.

[Anonymous]

Depends on the job, and how long everyone else has been around. At my job, you are new for at least a year, or maybe even two. A friend who works retail says you are only new at that kind of job for a couple of months, since you learn the job quickly and there is so much turnover.

[Anonymous]

Depends on experience in the industry. Six months top in my field.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:New Fed employees have a one-year probationary period.

Unless you work at CSOSA (a little known horrible to work at agency), where the probationary period is two years.

[Anonymous]

Depends on context. I started a job in the spring and felt “new” for a month or two; now I feel pretty comfortable and confident with the with I’m doing. But I’m still “new” in stuff like institutional knowledge and figuring out why certain decisions were made in our code base, etc.

[Anonymous]

My company 90 days as in probation they can fire you really easy and quick

[Anonymous]

I work on the hill. You can be new for about three days then you’re expected to be out on your own. Since most jobs don’t have redundancy, you’re required to dive in.

[Anonymous]

10 years

[Anonymous]

Love the variety of these answers.

[Anonymous]

I think at least a year. Takes a while cycle to know all the parts.