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Why is Hiring so Hard? How to Improve Your Hiring Fortunes

Strategic Tech

finding good software engineers takes so long and requires so much effort… but it doesn’t have to. If you like the ideas in the post, then why not come and join me at Navico and help us to build a highly-innovative engineering culture and a brilliant place to work. Hiring is so hard?—?finding extremely well.

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A Commitment to Diversity: Reflections on GHC

LaunchDarkly

It seems every week there is an article or blog post decrying the lack of women and people of color in software engineering, or on the other side defending the gap. At LaunchDarkly I have experienced similar intellectual honesty, one of the many facets of our outstanding engineering culture. Sessions & Workshops.

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On Not Being a Cog in the Machine

Honeycomb

Someone who can work in both software engineering and automation. It seemed tailored to what actual work would be rather than what people aspired it to be like if they wanted to boast about it at a conference. It didn’t name any specific technology, nor did it necessarily ask for any specific prior titles or education.

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How We Define SRE Work, as a Team

Honeycomb

As a secondary objective, SREs at Honeycomb may write incident reviews, blog posts, and participate in webinars and conference talks. Think of: Urban planners ’ roles around public consultation, transportation management, sanitation infrastructure, and sustainable growth.

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Principal Engineer: role & responsibilities

Apiumhub

Common patterns: what are the responsibilities of a Principal Engineer. He or she is one of the key faces of engineering and the company and enables awareness of the company while attracting talent and participating in tech conferences. Principal Engineer is in charge of driving engineering culture.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 2: Doing the Job

Honeycomb

Budgeting and longer-term planning Researching our competitive space and industry trends Meeting with customers and prospects, for a variety of reasons: to help a key prospect get excited about Honeycomb, to share best practices, or even to apologize for downtime or issues and communicate our plan for future improvement (thankfully rarely needed) Public (..)

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

He describes “some surprising theories about software engineering”: I discuss these theories in terms of two fundamentally different development styles, the "cathedral" model of most of the commercial world versus the "bazaar" model of the Linux world. If you give software engineers manual work, their first instinct is to automate it.