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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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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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Climate and Sustainability Hackathon—Meet the Judges!

Cloudera

Debbie Kruger Debbie is the Director of Internal Communications and Social Impact at Cloudera, where she’s led innovative strategies in social impact and employee engagement for the past two years. With a background spanning from corporate giants like Marsh & McLennan Companies and Verizon to fashion retailer ANN INC.,

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Managing From Afar: How This Engineering Manager Tackles the Challenges of Remote Work

Gitprime

How should remote engineers support themselves, since they lack the interpersonal support of a co-located office? Nassim Kammah , who recently joined Elastic as a Senior Engineering Manager, believes that leading a distributed team is really not so different than leading a co-located one. Then, be there to support them.”.

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Member of the Band – Area Engineering Manager Robert Pangilinan

Gorilla Logic

In this blog series, we’re going to introduce you to members of our band – engineers, technical recruiters, PMs, designers, and more who make up the most important asset in Gorilla Logic…our talent! Robert Pangilinan – Area Engineering Manager. Are you Gorilla material? Join the band today!

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High-Touch Leadership in Buffer’s Fully Remote Culture

Gitprime

So she ensures that her remote teams socialize together, no matter where they live. And it’s intentionally done—think more the office lunch out, more so than the water cooler banter—because socialization is necessary for even the most introverted human beings. “We It’s essential that people are actively supported in doing that.”.

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Top 20 Female Speakers in Software Development Events

Apiumhub

Women might be socialized to be more cautious and collaborative, while public speaking often demands assertiveness and confidence. By taking these steps and continuously promoting a culture of diversity and inclusion, the software development community can work towards creating events that better represent and engage all its members.