I was accepted into a company as a developer, and they work on cryptography. I signed all the contracts and documents so it's official. But I start two months from now. The only mail between me and the company was one month ago. I feel ashamed for not contacting them more. I don't want them to think that I'm not interested. Even though, I'm very very interested in starting the work.
Is it OK to send an email to the manager and ask him to provide me with documents on the API so that I can like have advanced knowledge of their work? Or just a head start on the work that I will be working on?
If you are a manager, would you have a negative view of me, if I didn't contact you during the in-between contract time?
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I feel ashamed for not contacting them more. I don't want them to think that i'm not interested. Even though, i'm very very interested in starting the work.
You're way, way over-thinking this - you don't work there (yet), and it sounds though all the hiring paperwork, etc is sorted so there's nothing to do until you start. There is no reason whatsoever to feel "ashamed"!
If you are a manager. Would you have a negative view off me, if I didn't contact you during the in between contracts time?
I certainly wouldn't expect a new starter to get in touch in the way you describe. I'd expect them to be busy with their previous role/study or if they had the time free to be relaxing and enjoying themselves. But to be honest I pretty much wouldn't be thinking about what they were or weren't doing - that doesn't really matter until they start working there.
You're not going to get documentation. Even if you signed some stuff, there are always additional NDAs and similar paperwork at the start of the job. And they aren't likely to send that to someone who isn't on corporate hardware, corporate VPNs, has an account in their system, etc. What might make sense is to ask them what technologies they use (languages, frameworks, etc) to get up to speed on that, as its not likely to be considered a corporate secret and will have public documentation. But even then- you're not getting paid yet, so unless you'll enjoy doing that I wouldn't.
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