In this book, onboarding relates to the process of integrating a new employee into an organization.
We are writing this book because we have seen multiple employee onboarding programs run on inertia - they carry on doing what was always done, maybe with a few small improvements, but never knowing how good or bad their program really is. LinkedIn’s 2024 Workplace Learning report illustrates this well, as only 1% of large-scale upskilling programs have reached the measuring stage.
There must be a better, more data-driven, and science-informed way to onboard software engineers.
We hope to systematize this better onboarding process as we write this book.