Microsoft

“New Hire Orientations, Reading Material and Online Resources and Mentorship from another Designer on the team.”

“Intensive training program”

“It's up to individual teams. I pair my new engineers with an "on-boarding buddy". We have developed a comprehensive set of onboarding documentation including both technical information as well as internal team bios to help break the ice. I implemented "mug up" which is a 2x per week mid-afternoon break to play games. I also require all my engineers to schedule a 1:1 with the new hire during the first week with the only expected outcome of getting to know each other and ask questions. I will usually start the engineer by assigning a set of bug fixes that give them the opportunity to get a broad sense of the code and architecture. Its also important to give each new engineer an area of ownership they can start to ramp up on and feel like they have responsibility over.”