What about scheduling meet-and-greet 1:1's? If you've ever worked on a team that uses Donut - think something like that. A chat to meet each other and, ideally

What about scheduling meet-and-greet 1:1's? If you've ever worked on a team that uses Donut - think something like that. A chat to meet each other and, ideally, talk about stuff other than work (but I find work talk is my go-to when the room goes silent and that's fine too). I'll usually ping someone on slack with a quick message like: > Hey <name>, I just joined the engineering team and I'm scheduling a quick chat with everyone as part of my onboarding. Would you be free for a chat at <X:XX> tomorrow? Then book it as soon as they say yes or propose a time. Don't worry about the people who don't respond. Move on for now - you'll meet them later. The audience is usually: - Everyone on the engineering team - Every manager up the management chain (up to CEO for a smaller company, probably have to stop somewhere before that in bigger companies) - Every "lead" type person in all adjacent groups (Design, product, QA, customer support, operations, etc.). Rule of thumb: whoever you'd go talk to first (or, often, who your manager would go talk to first) if you had a general question about that area. - Anyone who you encounter that seems like they'd be fun to talk to/friendly.