By Jean-Baptiste Aviat (https://twitter.com/jbaviat), CTO at Sqreen (https://www.sqreen.com/) Hiring developers is definitely hard, but that's only the beginning of the journey - you’re far from being done. Your next job as an employer is to make sure they have all the keys in hand to make the most out of their jobs. Jean-Baptiste knows this topic particularly well as his company, Sqreen, the tool democratizing security and making it easier to implement & use for developers, has a large tech team that represents a big part of Sqreen’s workforce. Let's find out together how to build that within a fast-moving organisation, with constantly evolving teams and complex technical products at stake!

2. Jean-Baptiste Aviat
CTO & co-founder @Sqreen
Former Hacker at Apple (Red Team)
Email: jb@sqreen.io
Twitter: @jbaviat

3. Alison Eastaway
Head of People @ Sqreen
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alisoneastaway/
https://twitter.com/AlisonEastaway

4. Set your employees up for success
2 main sides:
● Culture
● Operations

5. ● All companies are different
● No onboarding model can fit them
all
● Our mission:
Democratize security
Developer tool
Product centric company
Very deep technology
Paris and San Francisco

6. It is the continuum of the hiring process
And is the inception of your employee
life in your company
The efforts put on…
● employer brand
● hiring process
are confronted to the reality
during the onboarding.
not on its own

7. Notion.so is our source of truth for company
communications
We also use it for the onboarding
1 template, and we copy it for new employees
They can tick things, and we can track progress
New employees can use it as a reminder, source
of truth, ...

8. You have to meet all the team!
It could take months before your first flight to San Francisco
You first week, you will have ~1 meeting a day with the other side of the Atlantic
You’ll meet…
● Sales team
● Marketing team
● Head of Operations
● …
For the Paris team, lunch with everyone*
* at 25 finding a restaurant is becoming challenging...

9. The tech side of things

10. Having a newcomer in the team can be time sucking
Despite everything you’ve documented, not everyone learns in the same way
To prevent distracting the whole team, newcomers have a buddy
● Your go-to Sqreener for any question
● That will help you with many things
● Making sure you are not alone for lunch in your first days

11. The team building the agents is dealing with several different contexts
We defined several badges:
● When you had a pull request merged
● When you released an agent
● When you solved a bug working with a customer
● ...

12. It takes some time before you can fix production issues on your own...
Developers are put on call quickly, but during working hours
So issues can be fixed with a buddy
Guiding you at the very beginning
When you’re ready, you join the night rotation :)

13. Everyone does support at Sqreen
After your first month
● Do support with your buddy for 1 session
● Then on your own

15. We’re a product centric company
On your first week, you do a demo
So... Maurice built this on his first week here!
The best part: the demo happens during our team
meeting
All the company is watching, and you can introduce
yourself

16. The new employees use a slide to introduce themselves
And if for the week, we don’t have a new employee?
The older employee presents themselves!

17. 3 months - renewable
Can be ended either by the employer, or by the employee
Our goal is to not renew it
We have a thorough review process
● 1st week
● 1st 2 weeks
● 1st month
● 1st 2 months
This helps us not renew in most cases - and sometimes stop early
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18. Every 6 months
About the future, not about the past
It always feel early with a new employee
But we keep it, no matter what
Helps him understand what it is, and how to prepare it

19. If you onboard people
If you are thinking about your onboarding process
→ It means that you are hiring, and the head count is growing
With our first developer (Benoit 👋) we’ve been only two for ~4 months!
Then each new developer got less and less time from you
🚀

20. Thank you!
Questions?