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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.

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Managing Engineering Teams During Economic Downturns

DevOps.com

We’ve seen thousands of layoffs at public tech companies, along with weak stock performances and a decline in venture capital funding.

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

Gitprime

In this Perspectives in Engineering interview series, engineering leaders talk about how to build, coach, and scale world-class technology teams. Leading remote engineering teams comes with a suite of challenges. How should teams that are spread across time zones coordinate their schedules?

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Forecasting 2023 Recruiting Trends With 6 Experts

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Hough is a Web2 and Web3 software engineer, AWS Community Builder, host of the Tech Stack Playbook YouTube channel/podcast, a 5-time global hackathon winner, and a tech content creator with 10k+ followers. Rado: Engineering managers should be able to do “more-with-less” in the coming year.

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Introducing Engineering Management to a Growing Organization

Gitprime

GitPrime elevates engineering leadership with objective data. In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. Johnathan Nightingale has seen first-hand how powerful a solid management structure can be for growing organizations. “We No one is overwhelmed with direct reports.

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Habits of Highly Effective Engineering Managers

Federico Cargnelutti

Here are my notes: Management Know what’s expected of your team and what the business priorities are. Set a clear strategy and vision for the team, and ensure it’s understood by everyone. Find out strengths and weaknesses of your team, also their aspirations. Put first things first. Cycle time.