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It’s not, if your job is to onboard a new engineer. Those first few months make all the difference. If the “other parts” of your job prevent you from maximally optimizing the productivity of your new coworker, the compounding negative returns on that onboarding engineers time is incredibly expensive.

Unlike almost anything else you could be working on, turning someone from nonproductive to productive, or more productive, has compounding effects that can quickly help or hinder the longer term objectives