Best Of 2025: How We Reduced Onboarding Time From 2 Weeks To 2 Hours: A Platform Engineering Case Study
Platform Engineering, December 11,2025
It was a typical Monday morning when our CTO dropped a bombshell: 'We're hiring 50 new developers next quarter.' Our platform team's immediate reaction? Panic. With our current onboarding process taking two weeks per developer, we were looking at 100 weeks of cumulative onboarding time. Something had to change, and fast.
This is the story of how our platform engineering team transformed our developer onboarding process from a marathon into a sprint, without sacrificing quality or security. More importantly, it's a blueprint for how other teams can achieve similar results.