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

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

In the third edition of HackerEarth’s flagship tech conference – Hire 10(1), our keynote speaker from Adobe, Mr. Mino Thomas, used a word I hadn’t heard before in tech recruiting circles. Also, read: Keeping Culture Alive: What Recruiters Can Do While Hiring Remotely. Sanguine, he said. And then Choleric.

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Headcount goals, feature factories, and when to hire those mythical 10x people

Erik Bernhardsson

Many fellow CTOs, some went for the other side of the spectrum: bootcamps and campus recruiting are great recruiting grounds for them. You can’t really measure it, of course. But all managers try, when they set the salary of Alice to $110,000 and Bob to $115,000. This bubbles down to a junior engineering manager.

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Headcount goals, feature factories, and when to hire those mythical 10x people

Erik Bernhardsson

You can’t really measure it, of course. But all managers try, when they set the salary of Alice to $110,000 and Bob to $115,000. So on some level, managers certainly believe they have some precise idea of the relative value of each engineer. This bubbles down to a junior engineering manager. I’ve seen it.

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Changing How We Change Software with GeePaw Hill

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

What if we could create a trade culture that allowed for change rather than relying on mechanical thinking? Drawing on his 40 years in the software industry, GeePaw’s solution is to develop a thick culture in which certain standards are established across the industry. Defining Thick Culture, Thin Culture, and the Frame (4:01).

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AoAD2 Chapter 6: Invest in Change

James Shore

If you have a document-oriented culture, kaizen will help you streamline your documents. If you have a blame-oriented culture, it will help you place blame more accurately. Get Management Buy-In. Agile requires management support. Start with an influential manager you trust and recruit them as an ally.

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Investing in Career Growth & Team Development – Advice From 3 Engineering Leaders

Gitprime

As engineering managers and leaders, our job of course is to help our teams deliver value to the organization and its customers. Yet from a higher level, our role is to ensure that both engineers and teams continue to grow and develop. So what exactly does career growth mean, and how can managers and leaders invest in it?

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Finding Your Balance with Camille Fournier

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Keep the platform going and keep extending it, pushing it forward, adding new feet… like, and of course, we all know the business wants the more new shiny stuff and the engineers just need to keep stuff running and they want to, they have certain goals, but I know that that’s not a binary kind of decision. Marcus: Okay.