The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the way that software development teams onboard new hires. Previously, most software developers worked in physical offices and new hires onboarded to their teams in the physical office, following a standard onboarding process. However, when companies transitioned employees to work from home due to the pandemic, there was little to no time to develop new onboarding procedures. In this paper, we present a survey of 267 new hires at Microsoft that onboarded to software development teams during the pandemic. We explored their remote onboarding process, including the challenges that the new hires encountered and their social connectedness with their teams. We found that most developers onboarded remotely and never had an opportunity to meet their teammates in person. This leads to one of the biggest challenges faced by these new hires, building a strong social connection with their team. We use these results to provide recommendations for onboarding remote hires.
翻译：COVID-19大流行影响了软件开发团队在新聘用中的工作方式。以前,大多数软件开发者在实体办公室工作,新聘到实体办公室的团队,遵循标准入职程序。然而,当公司因该流行病而将雇员从家中转移到工作时,几乎没有时间制定新的入职程序。在本文中,我们介绍了对微软公司267名新聘到该大流行病期间加入软件开发团队的调查。我们探讨了他们的远程入职过程,包括新聘遇到的挑战及其与团队的社会联系。我们发现,大多数开发者在远程上岗,从未有机会亲自会见其团队伙伴。这导致了这些新聘员工面临的最大挑战之一,即与团队建立强大的社会联系。我们利用这些结果为登上远程聘用提供建议。
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