Every new hire pairs with an onboarding buddy for their first four weeks. The buddy is responsible for the day-to-day questions; the manager is responsible for the trajectory.
In week one, every new hire ships something. It might be a single bug fix or a doc revision, but it lands in production with their name on it before the week is out.
Week six is the formal check-in: what's working, what's broken, what should we change.
