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How Engineering Managers Can Help Recruiters Improve Developer Hiring

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

The engineering manager vs. recruiter saga is an age-old story. One of the main reasons this happens is because both recruiters and engineering managers approach the same problem from different perspectives. Hiring managers should take their time with the JD. Yet, they remain at loggerheads.

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Daily Crunch: Meta backs SMB e-commerce app launched by former Facebook engineering manager

TechCrunch

Because of course, our #watercooler discussion spills out onto the site from time to time. Perhaps a surprise story on a tech site, but we closed out the week with some levity last week, as a bunch of our writers got into a discussion about what the best Taylor Swift song is. Manhattan and Brooklyn are teeming with activity.

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How engineering managers can effectively support engineers, teams, and organizations

CircleCI

The typical job description for many engineering manager roles is action-packed. It is a mix of hands-on coding, technical leadership and decision making, process and project management, product oversight, people management, finding and hiring talent … the list goes on. What do engineers need to thrive at work?

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LinearB wants to help development teams optimize their workflows

TechCrunch

One of LinearB’s most important promises is that it goes beyond simply giving engineering managers access to more dashboards about developer efficiency. Keren tells me they had some early success with that, but decided that in order to really provide the most value for their customers, they had to change course.

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Introducing Engineering Management to a Growing Organization

Gitprime

Having someone dedicated to management, Nightingale says, is the difference between a group of individuals and a team that’s unified in their efforts. Good engineering managers are also connecting individuals with new challenges,” he says. That is totally how executives think about it.”. Troubleshooting to keep moving forward.

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Prezent.ai secures $20M to gamify deck presentations

TechCrunch

offers gamified learning courses to help employees improve their presenting skills. “Alternatives like management consulting and design agencies are expensive and inaccessible to the vast majority of business professionals.” Each course comes with content, quizzes, and exercises aimed at enhancing particular skills.

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Sleuth wants to use AI to measure software developer productivity

TechCrunch

Using AI to determine these values means engineers can focus on their work without needing to understand every metric in their system or what ‘normal’ looks like for each.” DORA metrics aren’t the end-all be-all, of course. ” Tracking DORA metrics with Sleuth.