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How FAANG Engineers Use Pair Programming to Onboard Faster
Pair programming is often seen as a tool for senior engineers to mentor juniors, but at FAANG companies it's a core onboarding technique used by everyone. In this episode, Lucas and Luna break down how Google, Apple, and Netflix use structured pair programming to cut ramp-up time for new hires by nearly 40 percent. They walk through a specific case from Google's Site Reliability Engineering team, where each new SRE spends their first two weeks pairing with a different teammate for four hours a day. The hosts explain why this accelerates systems knowledge, builds trust, and reduces the fear of…
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