I'm noticing a bigger spread in the success of onboarding new people. The success cases aren't getting any better, but there are a lot more neglected people an

I'm noticing a bigger spread in the success of onboarding new people. The success cases aren't getting any better, but there are a lot more neglected people and more "failures to launch." It's normal for a senior person to need to show some initiative in getting the lay of the land and establishing themselves in the company, but I'm also seeing more junior people being unintentionally left to do the same, and few of them can handle it. What's sad is that since expectations are lower for junior people, and since the industry has embraced the idea that virtually all traditional management responsibilities in software engineering should be left for engineers to figure out themselves, new employees can hang around for months without anyone caring that nobody has put any effort into making them productive, which stunts their growth and desensitizes them to being helpless and useless. Eventually effective onboarding for fully remote employees will become the norm, but meanwhile, a lot of people are falling through the cracks.