Complete I-9 and tax forms
Submit all required employment verification and tax documents through the HR portal.
Set up laptop and dev environment
Install required software: VS Code, Node.js, Docker, Git. Clone the monorepo.
Company orientation with HR
Attend the 90-minute orientation covering company values, org structure, and benefits.
Meet your onboarding buddy
30-minute coffee chat with your assigned buddy to get acquainted.
Codebase walkthrough with team lead
Deep-dive into the frontend architecture, folder structure, and coding conventions.
Complete first good-first-issue PR
Pick up a 'good first issue' from the backlog and submit your first pull request.
Attend engineering all-hands
Join the weekly engineering all-hands to learn about current priorities.
Set up monitoring and alerting access
Get access to Datadog, PagerDuty, and Sentry dashboards.
Shadow a code review session
Observe a senior engineer conducting code reviews to learn team conventions.
Complete security training
Finish the online security awareness training and phishing simulation.
Ship a feature independently
Take ownership of a small feature from ticket to production.
30-day check-in with manager
Sit down with your manager to discuss how the first month went and set short-term goals.