{
  "title": "Engineering Onboarding Debrief",
  "description": "Captures what confused new engineers, what took longer than it should have, and what they had to figure out themselves. Synthesize across cohorts to build a prioritized list of what to actually fix.",
  "language": "en",
  "questions": [
    {
      "hint": "Could be a process, a system, an unwritten rule, a deployment step, or a codebase quirk.",
      "text": "What took you the longest to figure out in your first month — and how did you eventually figure it out?",
      "type": "text",
      "order": 1,
      "required": true
    },
    {
      "hint": "Consider setup docs, codebase walkthroughs, introductions to team norms, and clarity on how to get unblocked.",
      "text": "How well did the onboarding process prepare you to contribute independently?",
      "type": "rating_scale",
      "order": 2,
      "options": {
        "max": 5,
        "min": 1,
        "maxLabel": "Fully prepared",
        "minLabel": "Not at all prepared"
      },
      "required": true
    },
    {
      "hint": "The things you had to ask someone about — or stumbled into by accident.",
      "text": "What do you wish had been documented that wasn't?",
      "type": "text",
      "order": 3,
      "required": true
    },
    {
      "hint": "Out-of-date instructions, missing steps, assumptions about your environment that didn't hold.",
      "text": "Where did the onboarding docs or setup guides send you down a wrong path?",
      "type": "text",
      "order": 4,
      "required": false
    },
    {
      "hint": "Real process vs. documented process, informal norms, how decisions actually get made.",
      "text": "What was surprising about how the team actually works — different from what you expected or what was written down?",
      "type": "text",
      "order": 5,
      "required": true
    },
    {
      "hint": "Be specific — a concrete addition, removal, or change, not a general direction.",
      "text": "What's the one thing you'd change about onboarding for the next engineer who joins?",
      "type": "text",
      "order": 6,
      "required": true
    }
  ]
}