[nosseo]

No engineer taking a role like this is going to expect an onboarding process. Many of them are specifically drawn by the idea they'll get to sit down and solve a problem on day 1.

[dasmoth]

Agreed. Even if I’m not #1, or even #10, you’ll stand a much better chance of hiring me if you never, ever, mention the O-word in my presence.

shudder

[phamilton]

> Many of them are specifically drawn by the idea they'll get to sit down and solve a problem on day 1

I don't see how engineer #1 or engineer #100 changes that.

When I onboard a senior engineer, they get a problem on day 1.

[PeterisP]

The difference is that when hiring engineer #1 there's no technical infrastructure to which you'd onboard someone, and nobody who's really qualified to make a decent technical onboarding process - you're hiring a person to create this process (among others) from scratch, make the initial decisions themselves (instead of being told them during onboarding) and onboard others.

[wolco]

Onboarding become here are the bathrooms, there is a great place to eat down the street.