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Transforming IT culture for business success

CIO

Back in the day, IT culture was all about the perks. The evolving role of IT, coupled with new pandemic-era work models, has sifted the culture conversation away from in-office trappings. The evolving role of IT, coupled with new pandemic-era work models, has sifted the culture conversation away from in-office trappings.

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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. Let’s say the CTO is absolutely adamant that they need to grow the engineering team by 2x in a year. This was a mystery to me, until it all made sense to me. Headcount goals.

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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. In a typical engineering hiring process, a CTO (or high up person) figures out roughly how much they need to get done compared to how many engineers they have, then goes to the CFO and haggles a bit, then gets assigned a headcount number and a salary range for those people.