Successfully Onboarding a Junior Engineer in Three Steps

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Claims a reproducible, three-step onboarding: set expectations by publishing a three-month roadmap and assigning mentors; deliver feedback with specific examples, impact statements, and weekly or biweekly one-on-ones plus day-to-day micro-feedback; and assess performance with team-aligned promotion criteria and concrete rewards. Concrete tools include pull requests, GitHub protection to prevent merging to master, documented checklists, and letting juniors fix their own mistakes so learning sticks.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 2:51Set Expectations
3. 5:33Deliver Feedback
4. 11:07Give Feedback
5. 17:03Evaluate Performance
6. 22:14Outro

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