2 min lesson
Collaboration in the 2-day project
Work through this: "On day two of the on-site project you're behind. Do you go heads-down and try to finish the ambitious version, or cut scope to a working demo and flag the tradeoff? Why does that fit what they're evaluating?"
Step 1 of 3
The 2-day on-site is the decision round. You build something real with the engineers, share meals and present at the end. The team is watching how you work at least as closely as what you ship - a brilliant solo build delivered without talking to anyone is a fail, not a flex.
Treat the unfamiliar codebase and the team as your two scarcest resources. Ramping fast and pulling context generously beats heads-down heroics, because they are evaluating whether they'd want you in the next incident bridge with them.