Engineering Onboarding

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2 weeks before first day at work
Hannah Newhire enrolled in
Engineering Onboarding
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New user detected in HRIS, in Engineering department
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Elena
 
 
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Setting your new hire up for success

We aim to have every new engineer releasing to production in their first week. Here's what you can do to make that possible for Hannah.

Assign an onboarding buddy for Hannah

Select a 'hello world' feature for Hannah to work on

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Hannah Newhire
 
 
Getting ready for your first day at Acme

Hey Hannah! We're looking forward to meeting you in a couple of weeks. We just need a little info from you to make sure everything's ready for your arrival.

Tell us your Github handle

3 days before first day at work
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Introducing your new buddy Hannah

Hannah will be joining our engineering department soon! Here's a few tips on how you can help them be successful in their first few months.

Book an introductory code pairing session

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Elena
 
 
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Make a 30-60-90 day plan for Hannah

Book regular 1:1s with Hannah

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Hannah automatically added to 5 onboarding sessions and 3 regular team meetings

Hannah automatically added to 4 Slack channels

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Service Desk Ticket automatically created: Access request for new Engineer

On their first day at work
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Hannah Newhire
 
 
Welcome from Acme's CTO

Hey Hannah! Welcome to the Acme Engineering crew. We're committed to giving every new Engineer the fastest, most effective onboarding of their career.

Submit a question for CTO Q&A

Download our remote code pairing tool

Take Acme's Secure Coding training

3 days after first day at work
Sent to Hannah's Buddy
Alex
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Review Hannah's environment set up with them

2 weeks after first day at work
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How's it going?

We hope you've been settling in well. We have a couple of questions to make sure everything's on track with your onboarding.

Answer onboarding healthcheck survey

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Elena
 
 
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Quick check-in on Hannah's progress

As part of making every new hire successful, we do regular check-in on their progress. We have a couple of questions to track how well Hannah's first few weeks have gone.

Assess Hannah's progress

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3 more messages, tasks and automations

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