http://simonwillison.net/2013-08-13T12:51:00+00:00Simon Willison2013-08-13T12:51:00+00:002013-08-13T12:51:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2013/Aug/13/what-is-a-good/#atom-tag

<p><em>My answer to <a href="https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-good-onboarding-process-for-a-new-employee-at-a-startup/answer/Simon-Willison">What is a good onboarding process for a new employee at a startup?</a> on Quora</em></p> <p>Have them deploy the site on their first day. This ensures they know how to...</p> <ol><li>Set up a working development environment</li><li>Check code out of your repository</li><li>Navigate the code base</li><li>Make code changes</li><li>Run tests</li><li>Pass a code review (or at least get some peer review)</li><li>QA their change beyond just the automated tests</li><li>Deploy their change to production</li></ol><br />If they do all of this on day one, they'll come in on day two ready to start building and shipping production code. <p>This also means your team need to have a development/deployment environment that can be set up in less than a day, albeit with a little guidance. This is a very good thing.</p> <p>If your infrastructure is good enough you can even do this with non-technical employees as well - let them edit the "about" page on your site to add themselves through the GitHub web editor and hit a "deploy" button in Jenkins or similar to deploy the site!</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/code-review">code-review</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/startups">startups</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/quora">quora</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/hr">hr</a></p>

2011-12-25T09:56:00+00:002011-12-25T09:56:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2011/Dec/25/what-are-the-coolest/#atom-tag

<p><em>My answer to <a href="https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-coolest-benefits-perks-offered-by-startups/answer/Simon-Willison">What are the coolest benefits/perks offered by startups?</a> on Quora</em></p> <p>I heard that Songkick give all of their employees a monthly gig budget to encourage them to go to live music (since that's what the site is all about), which I think is a neat and appropriate perk.</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/startups">startups</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/quora">quora</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/hr">hr</a></p>