Onboard a new engineer

Laptop, access, first commit and security training in week one.

  1. Ship the laptop with disk encryption on
  2. Create accounts with single sign on
  3. Grant access by role, not by copying someone else. Most people forget this: Copying another person's access gives the new starter far too much
  4. Run security and privacy training
  5. Set up the dev environment with a buddy
  6. Ship a small change to production
  7. Check in at 30 days (Engineering manager signs off)

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