Introductory tasks

[leedenison]

Welcome to your Hypothesis engineer onboarding! Here's what to expect:

• Your buddy @robertknight will help you through each phase of the onboarding process.
• We'll use GitHub issues like this one to keep track of each phase of your onboarding. You can use the comments on the bottom of each issue to discuss things with your manager and buddy.
• We'll use your onboarding project board to keep track of all your onboarding issues as you progress through them.
• Your onboarding tasks will cover things like:
  • Reading important documents like our code of conduct and engineering values
  • Learning the high-level organization of our product, codebase, architecture and processes
  • Setting up your local development environment
  • Sending your first pull requests
  • Doing your first code reviews
  • Joining our on-call schedule
  • Participating in your first real project from start to finish

Introductory tasks

• Manager: schedule a product walkthrough for the engineer with someone from product or support
  • Engineer: check off this item once you've had the product walkthrough
• Manager: assign a buddy for the engineer's onboarding
  • Manager: schedule a 1:1 between the engineer and their buddy
  • Engineer: check off this item once you've had your first 1:1 with your buddy
• Engineer: (re-)read the Hypothesis Company Principles