The best engineers I've seen tend to ramp up pretty quickly (1 month or less). Sure there are probably exceptions, but the ones I've seen that take 6 months to

The best engineers I've seen tend to ramp up pretty quickly (1 month or less). Sure there are probably exceptions, but the ones I've seen that take 6 months to 'ramp up' end up with very low performance. I think there's just a strong correlation with learning quickly and doing a good job. It's probably less true the more senior you get, but the relative effect is still present.