Front matter

title	Q4 Onboarding Plan
owner	Charles Forson
status	draft

Q4 Onboarding Plan

This plan describes how new hires ramp up during Q4, from day one paperwork through their first shipped change.

Timeline

Week 1: orientation
- Meet the team
- Set up local dev environment
- Read the engineering handbook
Week 2: first contributions
- Pair on a small bug fix
- Ship a one-line docs change
Week 3-4: first project
- Own a small feature end to end

Checklist

Laptop provisioned
Accounts created
First PR merged
Onboarding buddy assigned

Roles and responsibilities

Role	Responsibility	Owner
Manager	Weekly 1:1s	Alex
Buddy	Daily check-ins (week 1)	Priya
Mentor	Code review guidance	Sam

Ramp curve

The expected time-to-first-merge follows a fairly standard curve:

t_{m er g e} = t_{0} + \frac{k}{n}

Process flow

graph TD;
    A[Day 1: Orientation] --> B[Week 1: Environment setup];
    B --> C[Week 2: First PR];
    C --> D[Week 3-4: First project];
    D --> E[30-day check-in];

Warning

Do not grant production access until the security training checklist is complete.

Local setup

Run the bootstrap script once your accounts are provisioned:

git clone git@github.com:example/monorepo.git
cd monorepo
./scripts/bootstrap.sh

Troubleshooting bootstrap failures

If bootstrap.sh fails on macOS with a permissions error, run chmod +x scripts/bootstrap.sh and try again. On an M-series Mac, make sure Rosetta is installed for the legacy toolchain¹.