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The CIO’s primary job: Developing future IT leaders

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But it is equally vital to identify those people who can develop into managers and create a path forward for them as well. The best salesperson does not always make the best sales manager. The most innovative engineer does not always become the most successful engineering manager.

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Mintlify taps AI to automatically generate documentation from code

TechCrunch

Mintlify , a startup developing software to automate software documentation tasks, today announced that it raised $2.8 CEO Han Wang says that the proceeds will be put toward product development and doubling Mintlify’s core, three-person team by the end of the year.

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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. Simultaneously, each of us has an innate set of values that form our core belief system. Hippocrates, who? The Greek physician Hippocrates (ca.

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What Makes a Tech Interview Great? Hear an Engineer’s Perspective

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Assess the personality strengths and weaknesses of the candidate to understand whether they can execute responsibilities in the long run or not. Technical skills By analyzing technical skills, you’ll be able to understand if the engineering candidate fits the role or not. This makes evaluating the engineer a painful process.

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Developer Experience at Netlify

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I was 8 years into my career as a Software Engineer before I heard the term “Developer Advocacy.” Combining teaching and development sounded like a nice way to progress beyond the coding or engineering management work I was doing at the time. I thought it sounded amazing.

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SGNL.ai secures $12M to expand its enterprise authorization platform

TechCrunch

SGNL.ai , a company developing enterprise authorization software, today announced that it raised $12 million in seed funding led by Costanoa Ventures with participation from Fika Ventures, Moonshots Capital and Resolute Ventures. Kriz also spent several years at Google on the product, identity and authorization team.

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

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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.