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Re:Ask HN: How do you onboard new hires on codebase? by hknd on Monday April 13, 2020 @04:12PM (#22859522)
Let them setup an environment s.t. they can work on the codebase - help them, but also let them document it for the next person (or update existing documentation).

Give them a high level overview of architecture and best practices.

Let them work on very small features/bugs (update text, fix small issues, ...) s.t. they learn the process end-to-end without spending much time on code.

[^ everything until here could be done without human explanation if you have solid documentation and codelabs]

Give them small features to work on s.t. they can own part of the codebase.

Re:Ask HN: How do you onboard new hires on codebase? by throw51319 on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @04:44PM (#22882806)
If you're gonna type s.t. why not just shorten to st so that you can save 2 more keystrokes?
Re:Ask HN: How do you onboard new hires on codebase? by 2rsf on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @09:51AM (#22877680)
Exactly that