Originally posted by sarteck:

The new members were added like a year ago. If they're not up to speed, something is wrong.

It's an indie team, not a triple-A studio. Teething problems abound, and not just in "onboarding". The codebase is relatively large, and if you've ever worked in software dev, you know what kinds of spaghetti probably exist (and are probably labeled "// CORE FUNCTIONALITY - DO NOT TOUCH UNLESS YOU ARE BOB!!! //" in at least 4 places). To be quite frank, a year to get 2-3 new team members "up to speed" on what was previously the work of 5 people is probably... just about right. They should be mostly productive members at this point, with a semi-solid grasp of the codebase, as well as the programming styles of the other members ("This bit is camel-case, because John does it that way. The rest of us use Hungarian notation, except Harry likes to use snake case; try not to mess with Bill's modules too much, they're kinda black-box... but they usually do what they say on the tin, unless they're more than 6 months old, in which case ask first; there might be a better choice that's named something weird, like 'strawberry factory' or something").