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9 tips for recruiting high-end IT talent

CIO

Recruiting and hiring high-end IT talent is among the most challenging tasks IT leaders face today. CIOs, and their recruiting teams, are well aware. As Seth Dobbs, CTO at Bounteous, explains, “We do creative work. And, like your engineers, they live in open-source learning platforms, GitHub, Discord, and Reddit.

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Our startup’s first hire was a fractional Head of Remote

TechCrunch

Yann Leretaille is the co-founder and CTO of Wingback , a SaaS growth infrastructure company. not an engineer. It might seem counterintuitive, but the first person on board at Wingback was a Fractional Head of Remote — and it was the best decision we made. Sure, our first hire could have been a backend engineer or a sales guru.

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How Trainline’s CTO stays on track with professional development

CIO

Few would swap sunny San Francisco and the innovation of Silicon Valley for a train ticketing company serving disgruntled UK commuters, but try telling that to Trainline CTO, Milena Nikolic. Nothing clicked until she spoke to Trainline, the international digital rail and coach technology platform, headquartered in London.

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Fintech startup Vise brings on Andrew Fong (formerly Dropbox) as CTO

TechCrunch

Vise , a fintech firm that focuses on helping financial advisors rather than automating them out of existence, has today announced that it is bringing on Andrew Fong as its chief technology officer. Fong hails from Dropbox, where he served as VP of Infrastructure Engineering. Before Dropbox, Fong was an engineer at YouTube and Aol.

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Top IT exec recuiters weigh in on talent trends today

CIO

Two of the top executive recruiters in the CIO retained search space, Shawn Banerji and Martha Heller, joined me for the first episode of 2024 to share their insights on a range of talent-related issues, including hiring trends, hybrid work questions, and the critical skills companies are looking for at the executive level. Oshkosh Corp.

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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).” The software engineering community was rethinking some long-held ideas about engineering career paths. No rights for them.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Build a founding team, choose a VC and recruit your board

TechCrunch

Will that stellar engineer become a great CTO? Miranda Halpern spoke to Amsterdam-based coach Ward van Gasteren for our latest growth marketing interview , which is free to read. Should your product person be opinionated or a team player? Are you even the best choice for CEO?