Assessing New Hires' Programming Productivity Through UMETRIX -- An Industry Case Study

New hires (novice or experienced) usually undergo an onboarding program for a specific period to get acquainted with the processes of the hiring organization to reach expected programming productivity levels. This paper presents a programming productivity framework developed as an outcome of a three-year-long industry study with small to medium-scale organizations using a usability evaluation and code recommendation tool, UMETRIX, to manage new hire programming productivity. We developed a programming productivity framework around this tool called "Utpada" Participating organizations expressed strong interest in relying on this programming productivity framework to assess the skill gap among new hires. It helped identify under-performers early and strategize their upskill plan per their business needs. The participating organizations have seen an 89% rise in quality code contributions by new hires during their probation period compared to traditional new hires'. This framework is reproducible for any new-hire team size and can be easily integrated into existing programming productivity improvement programs.