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I don't worry about it, and if you have decent social skills, you shouldn't either. As long as you're not bombarding your colleagues with emails every 10 minutes and making an honest effort to figure things out on your own before asking for help or clarification, you're in the clear.
There's nothing wrong with asking questions when you're new. When it might become a problem is if you're asking about the same things repeatedly. If there's a lot to take in, it can be helpful to take notes.
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Try to ask as much questions as you can and meet as many as you can. You can still use the I am new card for a least a year. Don’t worry about being a burden.
I would proactively warn them I will likely be asking tons of questions at first. They should understand and welcome it, or at least give some minimum of guidance. And on the other side, I might see a red flag if they weren’t asking a lot of questions.
How many of those questions were things that would've been answered in due time? Very few folks I know hate legitimate questions, what most of hate is frantically asking questions. They are also onboarding to you
“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.” - Confucius
Im in the middle of on-boarding a new engineer to the company and the account right now. Please, please, please keep fing asking. Its a hell of a lot easier to answer your questions now than to answer to either whoever is up the ladder from you or the client later about why the new hires isn't up to speed, doesn't know X, or is always in a corner acting like they know the answer but everything the do or say is a 180 form the fact. Just keep asking. We don't always know what you need explained or taught unless you speak up. We don't have wifi antennas to scan your brain and cross reference a spreadsheet of needed information.