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

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

In the third edition of HackerEarth’s flagship tech conference – Hire 10(1), our keynote speaker from Adobe, Mr. Mino Thomas, used a word I hadn’t heard before in tech recruiting circles. Also, read: Keeping Culture Alive: What Recruiters Can Do While Hiring Remotely. Sanguine, he said. And then Choleric. Melancholic.

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

TechCrunch

On one hand, it has built a new way to source and run teams of people, specifically engineers, on behalf of others. They built the startup around a remote and distributed team of engineers, which helped them keep costs down while still recruiting top talent. Meanwhile, rivals were building teams in the Valley.

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Speeding Up the Enterprise: Virtual Squads at InVision

LaunchDarkly

On June 18, Ben Wilson, Engineering Manager at InVision, spoke at LaunchDarkly’s Test in Production Twitch Stream. Ben explained the process of how, when, and why a virtual squad may be your best bet to speed up decision-making and time-to-release across your engineering, product, and design organizations.

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AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

James Shore

Start with an influential manager you trust and recruit them as an ally. In your conversations, starting with that first manager, talk about the challenges your organization faces with software development. The manager was looking for someone to lead a small team. They may try to recruit you.

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AoAD2 Chapter 6: Invest in Change

James Shore

Start with an influential manager you trust and recruit them as an ally. In your conversations, starting with that first manager, talk about the challenges your organization faces with software development. The manager was looking for someone to lead a small team. They may try to recruit you.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 2: Doing the Job

Honeycomb

Departments or teams can burn through an infinite amount of energy re-litigating these decisions with stakeholders if the exec team doesn’t tell the story of these tradeoffs from above and make clear that the avenue for strategy concerns is mostly up, not sideways. However, I learned to leave myself more slack to respond to unexpected things.