Interesting. Fourteen years after the original Joel Test[1], is this a more current version of it?

Related, I write about what's necessary to onboard any sort of new person to a project (specifically open source, but it would apply to an in-house team onboarding a new employee as well) here: http://opensourcedesign.is/blogging_about/import-designers/

[1]: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html