Onboarding 1000 s of Engineers from 60+ Countries
summary
Company reduces onboarding from ~90 days to a five-day program that gets hires working in the real PHP codebase, running tests and able to deploy to production by the end of the week. Implementation uses peer-led 45-minute sessions, mob and pair programming, cohort shepherding, analytics-driven feedback, and practical setup steps (VPN, Docker VM, phpStorm, relevant databases). Pilot scales to hiring ~1,500 engineers in a year, while solving logistics of shipping laptops and aligning cultural and behavioral expectations across 60+ countries.
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- 0:00Start
- 3:09We want to make good software, quickl
- 6:57Key discoveries
- 11:11Micro-learning Sessions
- 12:06For each topic
- 13:00Structure of a topic
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