Mon, May 5·Orientation
Day 1. Welcome.
The mentor opens by asking where Sarah wants to be in 90 days.
We deliberately avoid leading with technical onboarding. The first conversation establishes intent — the answer shapes the personalization that follows for 90 days.
Mentor chat — what the hire sees
Welcome aboard, Sarah. Mark told me you'll be diving into the billing reconciliation rewrite — that's a meaty first project.
Before we get into anything technical, I want to start somewhere bigger: what are you hoping to be doing three months from now? No pressure on getting it "right" — I'm genuinely curious, and your answer shapes how I'll be most useful to you.
I want to feel like I belong on this team. Less ramping, more shipping.
Got it. We'll keep score on that, not on a checklist.
Mentor's private reasoning
Captured intent: belonging + shipping. I'll bias toward concrete contribution moments and away from generic orientation completion. Calibration questionnaires deferred — they read as test-like and would clash with the framing we just set.