(2015 - 6/11) Up To Speed: The Importance of Proper Onboarding

CALIBRATE 2015 (6/11) - http://www.calibratesf.com/

Up To Speed: The Importance of Proper Onboarding -- Peter Kinmond

http://engineering.sharethrough.com/blog/2015/11/11/engineering-onboarding-programs-getting-up-to-speed/

Bringing new engineers online as quickly and efficiently as possible is one of your most important jobs as a leader. Too often this gets left to chance or to a "sink-or-swim" philosophy. This talk outlines why it's important to create and refine an engineering onboarding program and how to design one from scratch.

Transcript

1. UP TO SPEED The Importance of Proper Onboarding $ Peter Kinmond Engineering Team Lead
 pkinmond@sharethrough.com
2. Who Am I? ONBOARDING @ CALIBRATE - 9/30/2015
3. What we talk about when we talk about onboarding ONBOARDING @ CALIBRATE - 9/30/2015
4. Why should I care about onboarding? ONBOARDING @ CALIBRATE - 9/30/2015
5. What if we do nothing? ONBOARDING @ CALIBRATE - 9/30/2015
6. What every new hire does 1. Figure out the state of the world 2. Figure out their place in it ONBOARDING @ CALIBRATE - 9/30/2015
7. Which would you rather have? Ad-hoc, diff for every hire, snowflake, dependent on relationships made in first days — VS — Structured, consistent, repeatable, taught by whole team ONBOARDING @ CALIBRATE - 9/30/2015
8. Goal for new hires: competence ASAP ONBOARDING @ CALIBRATE - 9/30/2015
9. What’s the ROI? ONBOARDING @ CALIBRATE - 9/30/2015
10. The role of pair programming ONBOARDING @ CALIBRATE - 9/30/2015
11. Creating an Onboarding Program from Scratch ONBOARDING @ CALIBRATE - 9/30/2015
12. Learning from Others ONBOARDING @ CALIBRATE - 9/30/2015
13. Lots of onboarding inspiration available ONBOARDING @ CALIBRATE - 9/30/2015 • How to build a good onboarding process for new hires at a startup • Facebook Engineering Bootcamp • Bootcamp: Growing Culture at Facebook • From Quora: What is the on-boarding process for new employees at Twitter? • What Google Taught Me About Scaling Engineering Teams (Advanced)
14. What’s the right size? ONBOARDING @ CALIBRATE - 9/30/2015
15. What should it accomplish? 1. Understand "What is expected of me?" 2. Can explain artchitecture diagram (at a high level) 3. Know everyday terms used in our industry and company 4. Share engineering culture and values 5. Expose to product fundamentals 6. Socially integrate into team ONBOARDING @ CALIBRATE - 9/30/2015
16. What should it not accomplish? 1. Not a Facebook-style 6-week bootcamp to determine team 2. Not expected to bring a new hire to complete job readiness 3. Not expected to cover entire ad tech world ONBOARDING @ CALIBRATE - 9/30/2015
17. Pick a format ONBOARDING @ CALIBRATE - 9/30/2015
18. Engineering Onboarding Schedule Architecture Walkthrough Day 1: Sharethrough’s Engineering Presence Day 3: Ad Server & Clients Day 4: Infrastructure Day 5: Internal Services & RTB Day 6: Process Overview Day 2: Product Overview Sharethrough Ad Manager (SAM) Sharethrough For Publishers (SFP) Engineering Ownership & Values Ad Auction & Ad Server iOS/Android SDKs Javascript SDK (sfp.js) Monitoring Ops Internal Services Data Pipeline Real-Time Bidding (RTB) Current Process Process Evolution Engineering Onboarding Schedule Intro ONBOARDING @ CALIBRATE - 9/30/2015
19. The Role of Mentors ONBOARDING @ CALIBRATE - 9/30/2015
20. Measuring success ONBOARDING @ CALIBRATE - 9/30/2015
21. Feedback Feedback Feedback ONBOARDING @ CALIBRATE - 9/30/2015
22. Refinements ONBOARDING @ CALIBRATE - 9/30/2015
23. 1-month and 3-month checkins ONBOARDING @ CALIBRATE - 9/30/2015
24. ONBOARDING @ CALIBRATE - 9/30/2015