Onboarding
11 articles on onboarding.
Onboarding Across Time Zones: The New Hire Whose Buddy Is Asleep
A new hire stops every twenty minutes and the person who knows is nine hours away. Split the questions, front load the overlap, and write the defaults down.
Onboarding a Contractor for a Six-Week Engagement
A week of orientation is seventeen percent of a six-week contract. Access before day one, one named contact, and scope that fits the time.
The Onboarding Buddy Is Doing Support Work. Give Them Their Day Back.
The buddy role is described as mentoring and performed as a help desk. Split it: retrieval to the record, mentoring to the human.
Your New Hire Has Forty Questions and One Person to Ask
Forty questions at fifteen minutes each is a lost week for the buddy, and the new hire rations the rest into guesses.
Cutting New-Hire Ramp Time: the Questions They Are Afraid to Ask Twice
New hires do not ask twice. They guess, and you find out in review. Ramp time is set by how cheaply a question can be asked.
Remote Engineering Onboarding: the First 30 Days of Questions
Remote onboarding is a question-asking problem, not an information problem. A four-week plan built around who answers what, week by week.
How to Reduce Onboarding Time for Engineers
Cut engineer onboarding time by making past decisions and context queryable, so new hires ramp without waiting on senior engineers.
The Best Tool to Onboard Engineers Is a Queryable Decision Record
The best tool to onboard engineers lets new hires ask the record why the codebase is the way it is, instead of interrupting the team.
How to Onboard New Hires Faster
The artifacts and structure that compress onboarding from months to weeks. What to build before the next hire starts, and what the first week should look like.
How to Onboard New Engineers Faster on a Distributed Team
Cut distributed engineering ramp time from months to weeks: prerequisites, first-week structure, mentor model, and the artifacts that compress learning.
How to Onboard onto a Distributed Engineering Team
A concrete onboarding playbook for engineers joining distributed teams — what to read first, who to talk to, and how to ramp without burning overlap hours.
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