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Onboarding

One-stop shop for new engineers.

👋 Welcome,
Anonymous
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Welcome to our central engineering hub! This engineering specific onboarding guide will help you through your first weeks. This page walks you through the onboarding specific roles and the rough onboarding timeline and it ends with a checklist of all the engineering onboarding tasks for your first weeks. When you have worked through this page, you are ready to jump into the first part of basic training which will be checking out our codebase on your dev machine and running make dev.
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One more thing - we are a fast moving startup and things change all the time. Some things in the onboarding guide might no longer work, or can be misunderstood, etc. Please help us fix them. Change the document if you are certain something is wrong. Add a comment or talk to your onboarding team if you are not certain.

🤝 Your onboarding team

Manager - Your manager is, well, first of all your manager. They will introduce you to your team. They are also picking your starter project and will give you feedback about your progress.
TL (Tech Lead) - If your manager runs a larger area they will likely have TLs for different projects and will lean on the TL for your starter project and feedback.

🗓 Timeline, expectations & checklist

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The table below lists the typical timeline for onboarding. Every project has different needs and different levels of complexity and every person brings different levels of experience and knowledge. These are rough estimates and for many people the onboarding timelines will be differ - simply make sure your manager and onboarding buddy are in the loop.
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Onboarding timeline & expectations
Period
Focus
Expectations
1
First few days
Set up your machine, workplace, and accounts
Meet your manager
Start the engineering code lab
Start drinking from the firehose
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2
First 2 weeks
Play with our product
NHO doc building
Eng code lab
Basic training
Join Friday demos meeting
[Optional] Attend Stats&Stories
Open
3
Second 2 weeks
Join Team meetings, meet other team members
Start your team specific starter project
Advanced training (project specific)
Open
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The table below lists the tasks required to be fully onboarded to this doc
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Onboarding checklist
Category
Done
Task
Setup
3
Github account created, 2FA enabled and can access to Github through SSO
Checking out our code and successfully running make dev
Fill out a short bio about yourself on the
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Code Lab
2
Code Lab 1
Code Lab 2
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