The Tools Spotify Uses to Onboard Engineers & Encourage Career Mobility • Helen Greul • GOTO 2023

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2023. #GOTOcon #GOTOcph https://gotocph.com Helen Greul - Head of Engineering for Backstage at Spotify @elenagreul9924 ORIGINAL TALK TITLE Ramp Up, Fan Out: The Tools Spotify Uses to Onboard Engineers and Encourage Career Mobility RESOURCES https://twitter.com/HelenGreul https://www.linkedin.com/in/elenagreul https://github.com/HelenGreul Links https://backstage.io https://github.com/backstage ABSTRACT Onboarding and retaining engineers is a challenge to any technology company. How can you speed up making a new hire productive, and make it possible for them to explore and transition to new positions in the company? Spotify has focused intensely on this problem and developed tools and processes that have measurably improved metrics around onboarding and mobility — such as time to 10th PR, and cross-domain expertise from code commits. This talk will look at Engineering Bootcamps, a unified developer portal, deploying to production on your first day with Golden Path tutorials, and Spotify’s internal marketplace for career opportunities, Skill Exchange. [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 04:40 Challenges affecting DevEx 08:03 Backstage 10:22 What Spotify did 14:02 Standards can set you free 18:28 On day 1 20:22 What's next? 26:36 Spotify plugins for Backstage 27:06 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://gotocph.com/2023/sessions/2892 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Joakim Sunden & Marcus Hammarberg • Kanban in Action • https://amzn.to/3n1Fmna Ron Kohavi, Diane Tang & Ya Xu • Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments • https://amzn.to/3JlY4NZ Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Nicole Forsgren, Patrick Debois & John Willis • The DevOps Handbook • https://amzn.to/3C0Rj0C Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies • http://amzn.to/3sVLyLQ Mary & Tom Poppendieck • Lean Software Development • https://amzn.to/3CxlMUq Marty Cagan • Inspired • https://amzn.to/3dPz7iq Marty Cagan • Empowered • https://amzn.to/42kuKAj https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #Spotify #SpotifyBackstage #Backstage #BackstagePlatform #Onboarding #CNCF #CloudNative #RBAC #RoleBasedAccessControl #PluginEcosystem #Authorization #SaaS #SoftwareAsAService #HelenGreul CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1