Awesome Engineer Onboarding

:sunglasses: A curated list of awesome resources for engineer onboarding

Engineer Onboarding is meant to guide new engineers, help them focus on the right tasks, and set expectations to help them be successful at new organization. Onboarding has a high return on investment; the more effort you put in, the better the result.

Contents

• Real World
  • Greene Laboratory
  • Mattermost
  • New Relic
  • Quora
  • Zapier
• Resources
  • Articles
  • Books
  • Videos
  • Discussions

Real World

Greene Laboratory

• Docs

Mattermost

• Engineer Onboarding Timeline & Expectations
• Docs

New Relic

• Experiences
  • 7 Proven Best Practices for Onboarding a New Engineer - by Rachel Klein

Quora

• What is the on-boarding process for new engineers at Quora?
• Experiences

Zapier

• How We Onboard New Engineers at Zapier

Resources

Articles

• So you want to Onboard a DevOps Practitioner - Guidance on how to make your environment easier to onboard for Web Ops Engineers, SRE's and DevOps Practitioners.
• The Ultimate Guide to Onboarding New Developers: Industry Best Practices and How to Plan the First 90 Days - Onboarding new hires requires taking their perspective into account and designing the best possible experience to get your new teammate assimilated and contributing as quickly as possible.

Books

• TO BE UPDATED

Videos

• GoGaRuCo 2014: Technical Onboarding, Training, and Mentoring [28:25] - About how to make junior engineers into independent and productive members of your engineering team faster and cheaper by outlining a plan for how to onboard engineers effectively.

Discussions

• TO BE UPDATED

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See Also

• Awesome Engineering Team Principles
• Awesome Engineering Ladders

License

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