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Your Onboarding Is a Hazing Ritual and You Call It Agile

Poor onboarding practices disguised as agile process — packed meeting calendars, same-sprint workloads from day one, and probation-enforced silence — systematically set new hires up to fail while making the dysfunction invisible to management.

May 08, 2026 · essay · DHg, dhung.dev

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Topics

  • engineering-craft
  • future-of-work
  • developer-productivity
  • software-engineering
  • enterprise-software

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  • Developer productivity

    Developer productivity spans individual workflow habits, organizational systems, and AI tooling — and the sources collectively argue that output speed is the least reliable measure of it.

  • Engineering craft

    Engineering craft is the accumulated discipline of writing, organizing, and maintaining software well — spanning code design, tooling fluency, communication, and the judgment to know when technical excellence actually changes outcomes.

  • Enterprise software

    Enterprise software sits at the intersection of organizational process, vendor ecosystems, and institutional trust, with recent sources highlighting governance pressures from AI adoption, supply chain risk, onboarding dysfunction, and the fragility of human-scale loyalty.

  • Future of work

    Automation and AI are reshaping who does what in organizations, but the harder problems are structural: how firms hire, onboard, retain tacit knowledge, and decide which human roles remain irreplaceable.

  • Software engineering

    Software engineering spans craft, process, and judgment — how code is structured, tested, reviewed, deployed, and maintained — and the sources collected here collectively interrogate each layer as AI tooling reshapes who does what and why.

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