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

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Two and a half millennia later, we were now using the ancient basis for illness to describe employee personalities, and what we could do to better team culture in the workplace. Also, read: Keeping Culture Alive: What Recruiters Can Do While Hiring Remotely. Hippocrates, who? The Greek physician Hippocrates (ca. Interesting, hmmm….

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Sustainable Software Talks and Latest News About Green Software

Apiumhub

Annie Freeman, Green Software advocate and engineer at Xero, delivered a compelling speech titled “ How Software Engineers Can Help Solve Climate Change ,” while Paola E. Illustrating Microsoft’s commitment to sustainability, the Sweden data center stands out and it operates entirely on renewable energy sources.

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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. This is good.

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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. Go focus all your energy and innovation on that. Hiring for culture fit.

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Climate and Sustainability Hackathon—Meet the Judges!

Cloudera

Previously, he managed global Social Impact initiatives for 21st Century Fox and led News Corporation’s Global Energy Initiative, helping them to become the first carbon-neutral global media company in 2010.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

Honeycomb

Nonetheless, I think it’s useful to share what I can about my experience in the hope that it might encourage others to seriously consider this role, especially those from backgrounds, identities, and genders poorly represented in the VP of Engineering ranks today. The whole tech industry would benefit from more perspectives in this role.

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Product Managing to Prevent Burnout

Honeycomb

The energy is there. This means I need to have direct conversations with the engineering manager and engineering lead to figure out if we have creative options. This is a big question, because saying “yes” means engineering must take on some level of stress as they work to hit a goal in a tight timeline.