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5 ways onboarding can accelerate engineering efficiency

Here are five effective ways to onboard new engineers and get them more productive, sooner.
July 05, 2023

Here are five effective ways to onboard new engineers and get them more productive, sooner.

As companies start increasing their pace of innovation, engineering organizations find themselves in an interesting position. 

Instead of hypergrowth, teams are now focused on a new paradigm of efficient growth, with an eye toward improving developer effectiveness. With teams reporting a three to nine-month average time-to-productivity for new engineers, it’s becoming increasingly clear that onboarding has an outsized impact on overall engineering effectiveness. 

Improving new engineering effectiveness

The first weeks of an engineer’s new role represent the most formative time for building context.

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