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TechCrunch+ roundup: Slashing technical debt, IPO analysis, your first comms hire

TechCrunch

Early-stage entrepreneurs who are eager to ship usually spend more time calculating their startup’s monthly burn rate than selecting an optimal development environment. Because I think that is the name of the game when you’re talking about a startup. Dear Sophie: Any suggestions for recruiting international tech talent?

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What Makes a Great VP of Engineering?

BeautifulCode

Hiring and retaining best talent, creating a culture that keeps everyone on top of their game, well planned execution and ensuring high competence bar for individual team members are the top tasks of a good VP of Engineering.

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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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An Engineering Manager’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities)

Honeycomb

There was fresh momentum around the idea that engineering ICs should be able to progress up a dedicated technical career ladder—one that didn’t top out where management levels began, or push ICs on an up-or-out path into management. These constraints incentivized managers to think hard about how to retain and grow their best senior engineers.

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Apiumhub supports Craft Conference one more year

Apiumhub

This includes a diverse set of topics, like how to scale development, how to create great company culture, how to create growing/innovation mindset, how to create an experimental culture, agile/lean practices etc. It is a fast-changing profession that requires you to continuously adapt to keep up your game with all of the news trends.

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Cloudera DataFlow’s key milestones and wins in 2020

Cloudera

The pandemic has ushered in new ways of how we conduct businesses, remote work cultures, telehealth, grocery/food deliveries, etc. Everyone was looking for real-time insights by analyzing what is going on currently within their businesses and taking corrective action pro-actively.

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How Splice Builds Globally Distributed Engineering Teams

Gitprime

One of the primary reasons to build a distributed engineering organization is that a company is not limited by geographic boundaries. For the last ten years, Buriticá has successfully been building and scaling distributed engineering teams and Latin American open source software communities. Start by building a network and a brand.