15 new starter questions
For corporate
- 1
What is one thing about this team that surprised you in your first week?
- 2
What is a word or acronym here you have been nodding along to without knowing?
- 3
Which of these would help you most right now?
- A map of who does what
- Time with the person I replace
- Fewer introductions and more work
- A buddy
- Someone to ask the dumb questions to
- 4
What did your last team do that you already miss?
- 5
What is one thing you are good at that this team does not know yet?
- 6
What is a habit from your old job you are trying to leave behind?
- 7
What have you noticed that we have stopped noticing?
- 8
Who has been most helpful so far, and how?
- 9
What are you worried about being judged on too early?
- 10
What would make you feel you have properly arrived here?
- 11
What is the unwritten rule you have worked out so far?
- 12
What did nobody tell you that you had to find out the hard way?
- 13
If you could ask one person here anything, who and what?
- 14
What is one thing you did in your first month you would do differently?
- 15
How do you feel about how your onboarding went, honestly?
- Great
- Fine
- Chaotic but friendly
- Lonely
- Still waiting for it to start
Try answering these at the same time
Reading a question out loud means whoever answers first sets the tone for everyone else. In Answersealed you each answer privately, and the answers only open once everyone has replied — so you get what people actually thought.
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