Functional Onboarding

Measuring Success: Insights from Splunk’s Technical Onboarding

Intro Techknowcon recently gathered for an insightful webinar featuring Gail Carmichael, Principal Instructional Engineer at Splunk, and Rajon Tumbokon, Director of Engineering Enablement & Engagement at Splunk. This session was a continuation of a previous discussion about Splunk’s technical onboarding program, focusing on how they measure success and the business impact of their initiatives. This […]

Instructional engineering at Splunk Part 1: Lessons in technical onboarding

When you think of onboarding new tech hires, do you imagine tedious sessions that everyone just can’t wait to get over with? Well, that’s not how they roll at Splunk! Splunk’s purpose, taken from their website, “is to build a safer and more resilient digital world….When organizations have resilient digital systems, they can adapt, innovate […]

How Salesforce onboards new technical hires at scale with PlusPlus

Everyone has the potential to thrive in a new job. They just need the right tools and guidance to get there. At a recent PlusPlus Customer Spotlight, we connected with Ashley Austin and Taylor Bawden from Salesforce’s New Hire Experience Team. They shared insights into Salesforce’s innovative approach to onboarding technical hires, drawing from their […]

How to: Functional onboard

This guide dives into the nuances of crafting an effective functional onboarding process that resonates with individual needs and aligns with organizational goals.

Elevating technical onboarding programs: Insights from Microsoft

Swati Doshi is a Principal Technical Product Manager at Microsoft. For a talk at our team enablement leaders community, TechKnowCon, she went over how Microsoft handles onboarding. At Microsoft, where hundreds of engineers are being onboarded across multiple groups each month, it can be a monumental challenge. Why onboarding matters…even more so now? Despite the current […]

Onboarding engineers made easy: Learn how to enable productivity in days, not weeks

Learn how to onboard engineers quickly in 2023. Plus, get a checklist to help get started the right way:

The 8 best practices on engineering onboarding you should know: learnings from LinkedIn, Netflix, Coinbase and Twitter

Some of the most significant companies in tech share how they go about getting their new hires off on the best possible footing.

The framework Microsoft uses to onboard 1,200 engineers per month

How Microsoft takes aim at providing a common way of assessing the onboarding programs at Microsoft using defined standards, terminology, and guidelines.

How Carbon Health scaled technical onboarding during the pandemic

Learn how Carbon Health implemented a technical onboarding program to scale 5 engineers to over 90 engineers in support of frontline medical staff.

Creating psychological safety at Slack during remote engineering onboarding

Benji Shine from Slack explains how to offer engineers psychological support through the onboarding process

5 ways Salesforce manages tech L&D for 18,000+ engineers with PlusPlus

Marika Spediacci spoke about how she is able to offer and manage hundreds of classes every quarter, for 4 different organizations at Salesforce.

How Uber scales remote engineering onboarding globally

Cameron Breen at Uber explained how his team developed a consistent global onboarding experience for engineering team members learning remotely.

How LinkedIn reconfigured their onboarding bootcamp to remote-first in 3 days

LinkedIn’s technical training team shared how they successfully adapted their classroom technical onboarding program to remote learning in 3 days.

How Visa redesigned instructor-led training for a virtual world

Sravani Tammiraju and Matt Peters from Visa University explained how they redesigned their ILT for a virtual world.