title: Onboarding checklist — new engineer project: engineering-team-template tags:

• onboarding
• checklist
• engineering date: 2026-04-07

Onboarding checklist — new engineer

Buddy: assign on day 1 | Manager: schedule 30-60-90 check-ins

Before day 1 (manager)

• [ ] Laptop and Yubikey shipped or desk ready
• [ ] SSO, email, chat, code host, PagerDuty (if applicable) groups provisioned
• [ ] First ticket picked: small, merged same week

Day 1

• [ ] Complete security and code of conduct training
• [ ] Clone main service repo; run docker compose (or documented dev env) successfully
• [ ] Join team ceremonies; add timezone and working hours to profile

Week 1

• [ ] Ship a docs fix or test improvement PR to learn the release path
• [ ] Read latest ADR for your primary codebase
• [ ] Shadow on-call primary for two hours (non-production incidents only if possible)
• [ ] Schedule 1:1s with PM and design partner for your squad

Week 2–4

• [ ] Ship a small feature E2E with buddy review; fix runbook gaps you hit; give a 5-minute lightning talk.

Ongoing

Light worklog (shipped / blocked / needs); small PRs; surface requirement conflicts early. Sign HR acknowledgements in the official tool—this file is your working copy.