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Re:Onboarding Antipatterns by PheonixPharts on Saturday June 10, 2023 @10:30AM (#36270779)
My experience is that the best onboarding processes (at least for devs) basically boil down to getting you to have a real PR merged by the end of the first week. The period could be longer for more complex orgs, but the time from logging in to first merged PR can be consider the metric to measure the success of your onboarding.

Basically:

1. Here's how to get the dev environment setup locally.

2. Here's your first task.

3. Here's the people that will be most helpful in solving that task.

Once you can submit a PR and have code review (and ideally have it merged), you're effectively onboarded. After this it's time start worrying about the culture/philosophy/meeting people/etc.

Needless to say (hopefully), the new hire should not feel pressure to get a PR up quickly, the process and guidance should be set up for success.

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Re:Onboarding Antipatterns by lelanthran on Saturday June 10, 2023 @11:59AM (#36271647)
> My experience is that the best onboarding processes (at least for devs) basically boil down to getting you to have a real PR merged by the end of the first week.

But then when will we have time for all the DEI training if we waste the first week getting the employee productive?

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Re:Onboarding Antipatterns by toast0 on Saturday June 10, 2023 @12:20PM (#36271849)
Some things are important to do in the first week, like anti-corrupt practices act compliance, and compliance for any consent decrees currently in place. DEI and anti-bias can wait for week two.
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