This is a presentation about the importance of the Onboarding in the technical perspective and some ideas to make the process better.

1. Technical Onboarding
André Luiz Teodoro

3. • Productive
• Independent
• Confident
Onboarding Goal
Taking someone from outside the group and make him/her feel

4. Why is onboarding important?
• Nearly 33% of new hires look for a new job
within their first six months on the job.
(Among Millennials, that percentage is even
higher… and it happens earlier.)
• 23% of new hires turn over before their first
anniversary.
Source: “Harvard Business Review - Technology Can Save Onboarding from itself”,
https://hbr.org/2015/03/technology-can-save-onboarding-from-itself

5. Why is onboarding important?
• The organisational costs of employee
turnover are estimated to range between
100% and 300% of the replaced employee’s
salary.
• It typically takes eight months for a newly
hired employee to reach full productivity.
Source: “Harvard Business Review - Technology Can Save Onboarding from itself”,
https://hbr.org/2015/03/technology-can-save-onboarding-from-itself

6. “Companies that excelled at onboarding
achieved 91% employee retention rate versus
30% with less strategic onboarding programs.”
Aberdeen Group Research - 2013
Why is onboarding important?

7. Onboarding Plan

8. Pre-entry
• Prepare workplace
• Create ticket for IT access
• Find a buddy

9. First week
• Office tour
• Talk about the company / mission and values
• Environment setup
• Product overview

10. First week
• Architecture
• Process
• Pair programming
• Small task / Bug

11. First three months
• 15 min talks each two weeks to check the
progress and receive feedbacks

12. Ideas to improve
• Code challenge to know the code better
• Refactoring stories
• Access ticket before start
• Social event (Beers, Lunch, etc..)
• HR support