Onboarding For Data Teams
How to set-up a streamlined onboarding experience that empower your data engineers and analysts day one.
Onboarding at most companies would be a great bit for a comedian. For many, we have just accepted the fact that it’s not a great experience where you will likely spend the first two weeks just trying to get access to email.
But it doesn’t have to be this way nor should it.
Onboarding should be considered a critical part of any team and company’s processes. This is especially true with technical roles like analytics and data engineers.
These roles require access to multiple systems, an understanding of business context, and access to key data sets. Delaying or inhibiting how smooth the onboarding process is for these roles can be costly and lead to poor retention.
Thus creating a smooth onboarding process is a worthwhile investment. In this article, I will review some of my past experiences onboarding as well as discuss some key steps and considerations a data team should have in their onboarding process.
Reviewing Some Of My Past Onboarding Experiences
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