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Becoming a CTO

Puppies, Flowers, Rainbows and Kittens

They are a director of engineering at a midsize startup and just got their first headhunter inquiry for a CTO role. I realized that while there are some books on technology leadership careers, there aren’t many resources explaining the most senior levels. I’ve been a CTO for five and a half years.

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Hire1O(1): 5 Takeaways From The Biggest Tech Conference in 2022

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

We have been virtually hosting this tech conference of (and for) tech recruiters and engineering managers since 2020, and this was the first time we got to meet everyone in person. After all, to recruit the best, it makes sense to learn from the best. The best thing about a tech recruiting event? The insights.

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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).” These constraints incentivized managers to think hard about how to retain and grow their best senior engineers.

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Turing nabs $32M more for an AI-based platform to source and manage engineers remotely

TechCrunch

It includes unnamed executives from Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Microsoft, Snap and other companies, as well as Adam D’Angelo ( Facebook’s first CTO and CEO at Quora), Gokul Rajaram, Cyan Banister and Scott Banister, and Beerud Sheth (the founder of Upwork), among many others (I’ll run the full list below).

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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. So on some level, managers certainly believe they have some precise idea of the relative value of each engineer. Let’s dissect an classic management objective: headcount goals.

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The Unvarnished Truth of being a Woman in Tech

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

In our fifth episode of Breaking 404 , we caught up with Monica Bajaj, Senior Director of Engineering, Workday to hear out the different biases that exist in tech roles across organizations and how difficult it can get for a woman to reach a senior position, especially in tech. I have a great partnership with our recruiting teams.

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Gorilla Logic Adds Custom Software Development Center in Medellín, Colombia

Gorilla Logic

Our talented and experienced Area Engineering Managers, Technology Managers, and Practice Leads are crucial members of our strong community of delivery. Gorilla Logic is renowned for recruiting, training, and retaining the top engineers available wherever we operate. Focus on Talent.