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Guide To Creating Candidate Personas For Tech Teams

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

In such times, maybe it’s not a bad idea to go back to the drawing board and redefine ‘who’ you are looking for. Step 1: Understanding Developer Candidate Personas. Developer personas are an off-shoot of this oft-used strategy; with a few tweaks and changes to make it engineering-friendly. All on board? Let’s begin!

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What Makes a Tech Interview Great? Hear an Engineer’s Perspective

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Assess the personality strengths and weaknesses of the candidate to understand whether they can execute responsibilities in the long run or not. Technical skills By analyzing technical skills, you’ll be able to understand if the engineering candidate fits the role or not. This makes evaluating the engineer a painful process.

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Greeks to Geeks: What Plato Says About Bettering Your Team Culture

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Two and a half millennia later, we were now using the ancient basis for illness to describe employee personalities, and what we could do to better team culture in the workplace. This personality type is loyal, focused, good at long-term projects, and the one that moves the team forward amidst small differences. Hippocrates, who?

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Exploring the transition from Developer to Engineering Manager

Seerene

Having begun as an Engineer with my company, Seerene, I transitioned from this role to a position as Engineering Manager some two months ago. Just as any individual would when they’re about to start in a new position, I started familiarising myself with blog posts and other literature written by seasoned managers.

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Managing Engineering Teams During Economic Downturns

DevOps.com

We’ve seen thousands of layoffs at public tech companies, along with weak stock performances and a decline in venture capital funding.

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An Engineering Manager’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities)

Honeycomb

Or, the small crisis with engineering management. In 2018, Honeycomb co-founder & CTO Charity Majors wrote a blog post titled, “An Engineer’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities).” These constraints incentivized managers to think hard about how to retain and grow their best senior engineers.

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Forecasting 2023 Recruiting Trends With 6 Experts

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

He is currently head of engineering at Product Hunt. Enjoys blogging, conference speaking, and solving problems. Hough is a Web2 and Web3 software engineer, AWS Community Builder, host of the Tech Stack Playbook YouTube channel/podcast, a 5-time global hackathon winner, and a tech content creator with 10k+ followers.