Technical onboarding and hiring diversity - Cultivate interview with Kate Heddleston

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Technical onboarding means preparing new engineers to ship code reliably by teaching the codebase plus the team’s deployment and review practices; recommended focus areas are technical skillset, company knowledge and process, and personal development so new hires become confident, productive contributors. Analysis of CodePath cohorts finds no statistically significant difference in performance across gender and the races with sufficient samples, so hiring shortfalls usually indicate a biased pipeline (e.g., 20% of interviewees are women but only 15% hired). Also notes following Python work like Flask and Requests.

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1. 0:00What is technical onboarding
2. 0:54Benefits of technical onboarding
3. 1:49Philosophy behind onboarding
4. 3:28Hiring diversity

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