I've been using Donut Onboarding for a little while now, and one of my favorite aspects of it is how it remains incredibly useful even after you've onboarded an employee. At Huge, we've used it as a learning & development tool to internally market our workshops and then to engage with participants after they've completed workshops with automated surveys, support materials, polls, and challenges. For a small L&D team, it's made a massive difference. It would've taken us a lot longer to do all of that by hand every time.

We're all HUGE Donut lovers here at InVision. Excited to see this product evolve even further. Awesome work team!

👋Hi PH community, Thanks for hunting us @benln! I’m Sarah, one of the cofounders of Donut. We launched Donut Pairing three years ago, and we’re super excited to be back with our newest launch: Donut for Onboarding. After talking to countless teams ranging from 10 people to 35,000+, we heard one consistent thing: new hire onboarding is really hard, but really important. It determines everything from ramp time and long-term engagement to productivity and length of tenure. We wanted to make it easy for anyone on the team from people ops to engineering leads to sales enablement to find and launch onboarding best practices like buddy systems, feedback collection, pre-boarding reminders to managers, and key task lists. Here’s how it works: ● Set up your company’s onboarding journey by building a template in Donut — a series of Slack messages with interactive onboarding content like tasks, polls, or introductions. ● Automatically send onboarding content to new hires + other stakeholders anytime someone joins. ● Measure new hire progress (inc qualitative and quantitative feedback). We’re always looking for new things to build, so we’d love to hear from you. And if you have any questions, let us know – we'll be around here all day, or reach out anytime! P.S. if you're interested in giving it a try, you can start a free trial using this link, and we're giving all PH users half off the first month!

Big fan of @danmanian and the Donut team. We're fans and customers over at @gettroops

Amazing team and really exciting product. A must for any organization that's looking looking to create culture of collaboration and help new employees have a successful on-boarding.

I've been using the Pairing feature from Donut for over a year, as a great tool for the team to get to know each other. Adding onboarding is a huge win - we were "hacking" pairing to help new team members meet people, but now we can structure such a better process.

Pros:

Really simple - and valuable to use - to use. Love the recommended flows. Great customer support.

Cons:

More reporting would be nice

Onboarding was always something that was a bit haphazard, and Donut helped us put into place a more consistent experience and make sure we weren't forgetting any important information. It made it easier to setup a longer term onboarding program (1-3 mos instead of a couple weeks) and made sure everyone got the best experience even if their manager had other things going on.

Pros:

Easy to use and setup great flows for be employees. Lots of options to send different kinds of messages or create introductions.

Cons:

Easier integration with HR systems

The pairing feature, Donut's earlier bot, is another example of something easy and scalable that has had outsized benefits for my team.

Pros:

It's years of company culture and productivity research implemented in a usable process that scales.

Cons:

My new employer doesn't use Slack, so there's that.

I am remembering my days at the retail giant that is Best Buy. Onboarding there was both the best and the worst I've seen it. I wonder what a product like this could do for that process.

Pros:

Gosh I wish all jobs had this. I've never seen a real onboarding process that was consistent and useful. this seems to bridge that gap

Cons:

How can we get every company to use this?

We love Donut here at Jet! In a large organization Donut enables employees to expand their networks and meet people in a relaxed, stress-free way.

Pros:

Ease of use; Fun, engaging; Great for larger companies

Cons:

Donut could roll out customized settings per user

We've worked with Donut for a number of years now and rely on it to help our peopel onboard smoothly and effectively.

Pros:

Simple, easy to use and awesome support.

Cons:

Some folks find the notifcations hard to keep track of

Going to amplify my friend @steve_hopkins1 here: "Donut is an amazing product that's always improving...they're a wonderful team to work with - creative, responsive and human." 🙌

@sarah3o6 - You know I am a huge fan of Donut for Onboarding! So excited to see this shared with the world.

Much recommended!

Pros:

As the VP, People for a growing NYC company, Donut Onboarding was an essential tool to properly onboard our new hire classes.

Cons:

I don't have it yet for my new company!

This looks excellent. I think companies are crazy not to use Donut. The employee onboarding experience is super important, and harder than ever.