I’ve been interviewing, shaping the recruitment pipeline, onboarding and working closely with other Staff engineers. In my current gig as a Senior Staff engineer, I find myself digging into a new cluster (roughly 100–200 people) every few months which means I practically need to be onboarded as if I was new.
I also mentor aspiring senior engineers who are on their way to becoming full blown Staff engineers. A common theme is the differences between senior engineers and Staff engineers which start from day 1.
I have seen some great onboarding and some terrible ones, both with long-lasting impact on the performance.
To make onboarding more approachable, I packed some of the best practices in this article to set a good baseline.
I’ve recently moved to Substack. Read the full story over there.
When it comes to books, less is more.
👉I have recently moved to Substack. Read the full story here: https://alexewerlof.substack.com/p/slow-reading
Resumes, job ads, personal intros and even funerals have one thing in common: they use “year” as a unit of experience.
This is fundamentally wrong!
I’ve recently moved to substack. Read the full story over there.
Since I’ve moved to Substack, here’s my latest article for my Medium followers: https://alexewerlof.substack.com/p/mobility-maturity
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