Thursday 11:50 a.m.–12:20 p.m.

Technical Onboarding, Training, and Mentoring

Kate Heddleston

Audience level:

Intermediate

Description

With the increase of code academies training new engineers there is an increase in junior engineers on the market. A lot of companies are hesitant to hire too many young engineers because they lack sufficient resources to train them.

Abstract

This is a talk about how to make junior engineers into independent and productive members of your engineering team faster and cheaper by outlining a plan for how to onboard engineers effectively based on data and anecdotes gathered from companies in San Francisco.