27 things I learned about hiring in tech
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This week features posts on: Hiring, Culture, Career, and Decision Making.
HIRING
27 things I learned about hiring in tech from looking for a new engineering management role
After spending 143 hours in interviews and working through her “spreadsheet of doom,” Lena Reinhard, VP of Engineering, shares an insightful take on the hiring process — and the process of being hired.
CULTURE
How to make the most out of a team offsite
Gustavo Razzetti, CEO and Leadership Consultant at Liberationist, on the why, how, and various types of team retreats.
CAREER
On being a senior engineer
John Allspaw, Co-founder of Adaptive Capacity Labs, sheds light on what makes for a good senior engineer and discusses the 10 commandments of egoless programming.
DECISION MAKING
Stop making “irreversible” engineering decisions
Jakob Heuser, CEO and Founder at Lead SV, articulates why organizations often fall prey to applying Type 1 engineering decisions to everything, and explains how to get back to Type 2.
Ben Thompson
Ben Thompson is a co-founder at GitPrime where he leads design and customer experience. He is a Y Combinator alumni, with a background in product design, branding, and UX design. Follow @thebent on Twitter.
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