[sejtnjir]

I have the opposite experience. When people typically stick around for the majority of their career, there's no incentive to capture knowledge thoroughly. Onboarding time was noticeably longer because of it.

[lostapathy]

The ideal is almost certainly somewhere in the middle.

The people who have only been on the job a couple months are probably not truly onboarded themselves, hard for them to document what they don’t know.

[datavirtue]

And everyone new has to run to the lifers...which means that the new people never learn deeply...and always have to run back to the lifer.

It takes a loooong time to learn a system when you have this dynamic.