Onboarding at Contrast

Hiring is hard for many reasons, and one of those is bringing aboard the people you've worked so diligently to recruit to your organization. This talk details how to build a self improving onboarding system for your Cloud team. At Contrast Security we:

1. Realize that engineers manage their work in tickets, not calendar items
2. Acknowledge that our new folks have competing interests in their first few weeks with HR and Compliance
3. Learned that the very best people to improve onboarding are those going through it.
4. Benefit from knowing that in 6 to 8 weeks our new hires will be productive and reliable members of the team who provide their expert input where it can have the best impact.

Boyd will give you a full look behind the curtain for what we do and why we do it. Including a careful description of setting up and operating a continuous improvement loop.

Bonus Discussion

Paul has posed the question: What are the differences between onboarding to a company/team vs. an open source project.

Let's talk this one through as most of us have team mates who will contribute small fixes, bug reports, etc to OSS.

Heck, maybe this should be part of our Onboarding at Contrast!