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Robin's avatar

I am going through the same phase in my new Job. Reading this gave me a lot of context and breather . Coming from an ecosystem where i was leading Product, program and Platform to a new Job where I am finding it difficult to set my foothold. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and wisdom.

Rajan Gandhi's avatar

Thanks for sharing. This is super helpful.

Ellie Williams's avatar

So refreshing to hear this. I think the expectation to make changes before a 3 month ramp up is just short-sighted, yet I hear it so often.

Faramarz's avatar

This is insightful! Thanks for your writing and please continue, I’m a fast learner and could listen to more of what you have to say.

Stepping into Head of Product Design with lots of excitement and fear.

Yoav Achiam's avatar

I am going to onboard a new IC soon and some of these items resonate with what I want to do/should do there as well. Amazing process. Thanks for sharing!

Arun Nautiyal's avatar

Thanks @Ami for this very useful post full of wisdom and great advise I stumbled upon today. An additional tactic my previous manager used which I found very effcetive for my onboarding was to create a temporary slack channel xyz_onboarding (archived after 90 days) and added leads that I was to work with. This was the safe place where I could post any questions that I got during my onboarding. She checked the channel from time to time and made sure either my questions are answered, or answer herself or tagged people to help answer. Not only did it ramp me up fast but also having her strong support enabled me to fit in into organization quickly.

Balu Chenicheri's avatar

Great insight, Ami. Way to set your team for success!

Saadia's avatar

I became a manager recently and I’ve now reached that struggling point you are mentioning. In fact, I realized that as I was reading your post.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and wisdom.

Sudhir's avatar

You hit the bulls eye! Fabulous one! Thank you Ami!

Stoic Product Manager's avatar

Great guide, definitely will use this for the new hire that is joining my team. I really like how you structured it and balanced handholding and giving the new hire free reigns.