New engineers lose days to missing access, stale set-up steps and not knowing whom to ask. This guide fixes that with a dated two-week plan: a welcome page with the manager and buddy, a milestone timeline, one-command environment set-up, a codebase tour, a first-task checklist, a who-to-ask page and a glossary.

The sample follows Valemont Digital, a fictional software company. A new hire starts on Monday, March 15, 2027, merges a first pull request by day 5 and ships to production by day 10. Replace the people, commands and repositories with your own, rerun the set-up on a clean laptop and link a real first issue.