Passing the Torch - Building a New Grad Program to Mentor...
summary
Company designs a two-year roadmap to junior engineer that converts near-zero SRE/devops experience into a hireable junior role, hires two new grads for the pilot, and plans a new cohort every May. Hiring shifts from tech tests to assessing growth mindset, onboarding adds basic tooling, calendars and time-tracking, and training includes pair programming, code review and TDD. Internal projects and sandbox cloud environments get built, technical debt falls, grads learn faster than expected and the pipeline proves cost‑effective.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Start
- 10:52Initial program framework
- 16:36What we learned from the hiring process
- 22:55Foundational Training
- 24:28Working on internal projects
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