We figured out a nice way round this; use mercurial. We fork our main code base to a seperate location for each new employee and he can commit to that all he w

We figured out a nice way round this; use mercurial. We fork our main code base to a seperate location for each new employee and he can commit to that all he wants; then patches can me merged back by a lead developer. This keeps them able to write code in the first weeks and gives us a bit of audit control over their work :)