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Date Published
Author
Viktor Benei
Word count
1545
Language
English
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None

Summary

A poorly designed onboarding process can lead to reduced productivity, gradual loss of internal technical knowledge, poor integration with other engineers, and ultimately, higher turnover rates. However, a well-designed onboarding experience can increase employee retention rates, improve job performance, and create a happier workforce. Mobile developers need an onboarding process that helps them familiarize themselves with the company's unique codebase, tools, dependencies, and engineering best practices to set them up for long-term success. This requires ramping up new mobile developers quickly, imparting the company's culture and values, exposing them to the breadth of fundamentals needed to succeed, introducing them to the team, and socially integrating them into the team. Engineering-specific tips such as documenting everything, creating knowledge transfer pipelines by assigning mentors, improving time to productivity with good mobile DevOps practices and tools like Bitrise can help achieve these goals.