Technical Onboarding, Training, and Mentoring
summary
Argues a concrete onboarding plan that turns junior hires into productive, independent engineers faster and cheaper by combining automation, scoped tasks, and staged mentorship: expect dev environment in a day, aim to ship code in the first week, and use codelabs, pairing, and shadowing plus weekly one‑on‑ones and goal setting. Recommends the last person who did a task teach it, scopes first bugs as starter projects, measures risk (replacement cost ~1.5–2x annual salary), and iterates through phases until reliable independence.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Start
- 14:45Instead...
- 17:26Dev Environment
- 17:59Shipping Code
- 18:41Journaling/note taking
- 19:01Social Event
- 20:45Shadowing and Code Labs
- 23:16Goal Setting and Feedback
- 24:08Presentations
- 25:21Apprenticeship
- 25:49Assessment
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