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Astro emerges from stealth to connect Latin American developers with US tech companies

TechCrunch

. “With a very limited pool of engineering talent to hire from, we were stuck with three uncomfortable options: outsource our entire product, manage a large team of independent freelancers, or rely on an outsourcing company to create our engineering culture.

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Is the power of people skills enough to keep gen AI in check?

CIO

Humanity first In a recent survey of nearly 700 business leaders, researchers at USC and other institutions found that the most important skill for the AI age was integrity, followed by strategic vision, ability to inspire others, motivation, and drive. That might continue to work for a few rarified geniuses, he adds.

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Why is Hiring so Hard? How to Improve Your Hiring Fortunes

Strategic Tech

finding good software engineers takes so long and requires so much effort… but it doesn’t have to. Stripe C-Suite Survey As an organisation, there are a whole variety of levers you can pull to significantly improve the quality and speed of your hiring process and notably reduce the costs. Perhaps more surprisingly?—?as

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Platform Engineering Essentials: 5 Key Learnings Before You Start

Xebia

Start collecting information by doing surveys. Using surveys you can start collecting valuable information fast and it is often a lot easier to achieve than capturing metrics through automation. Involve the development teams in what you want to measure.

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How we hosted one of the most memorable open source hackathons of 2018

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Our engineering culture embodies the essence of open source, and it’s a small contribution to the community ? We ran a survey post Djangothon, and the results were unlike any other hackathon feedback we have ever seen. a token of respect, a small payback. So the question was, how can we make Djangothon worthy for developers?

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Leading Remote and Distributed Engineering Teams – Top Takeaways from the Panel

Gitprime

In our most recent engagement survey, our team is telling us that they don’t know what’s going on in other teams, despite that being one of our major focuses,” Womersley says. “So The technical aspects of onboarding are going to happen with their teams, where leadership is really about the cultural onboarding,” Muntz says.

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Technical Health Isn’t Optional

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Chander Damodaran of Brillio noted that, “the culture of sharing solutions, frameworks, and industry-leading practices” has been a crucial part of Brillio’s journey. Similarly, Tim Hope said that open source is critical in building an engineering culture and developing systems. That’s an important statement.