The best way to leave a job for a developer

There are a lot of reasons to leave a job, I won’t focus on the reasons in this article.

I will focus on the best way to handle the transition from the old job to the new job.

There are not much written content about this topic out there.

I think the transition should be fair to both sides: the old and the new company.

Fair is a simple concept that is hard to describe.

How to be fair with the old company?

For the old company you need to give enough time to let them hire someone else to be in your place. I think 15 days is a good time frame.

You should also transfer your knowledge of the codebase to the ones that you maintain the code.

Write down all the implicit knowledge that you have about the codebase and