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Engineering Onboarding Framework: From Day 1 to Full Productivity

January 18, 2025By Steve Winter1 min read
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A comprehensive 30/60/90 day onboarding framework that gets engineers productive faster. Includes checklists, success metrics, common pitfalls, and templates for every stage of the onboarding journey.

The Onboarding That Determines If They Stay or Leave

Your new senior engineer starts Monday. Day 1: No laptop. Day 2: Can't access GitHub. Week 1: Still doesn't understand the codebase. Month 1: Frustrated, unproductive, updating their resume. Month 3: Gone.

Bad onboarding costs you the hire, the recruiting fee ($20-30K), and 3 months of lost productivity. Good onboarding gets engineers shipping code in week 1 and fully productive by month 2.