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by zwayhowder
2204 days ago
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When I joined Puppet Labs they had the best process I've come across (I'm a consultant so I've been onboarded several dozen times over the past 20 years). Day 1:
* I wake from a good nights sleep having flown into PDX two days before to allow for Jetlag to clear.
* A shiny new laptop (It was a MacBook Pro because I didn't think to ask for a ThinkPad).
* All my accounts and access are already setup.
* Someone assigned as my buddy to help me navigate, but the whole team made an effort.
* A wiki article about starting that clearly laid out the expectations for my first day and first two weeks.
* A puppet repository to setup my MBP for the work I was doing. One command everything installed and ready to go.
* Met with other new starters and run through HR and other policies.
First two weeks:
From the wiki article I knew what I needed to organise including:
* Meeting key people around the business.
* Doing a demo to show I understood the product.
* Staff photo
* Organising cadence for return to head office for training and team socialising.
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