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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

You can of course make a series of obviously bad decisions, but you'd get fired quickly. Make sure production environment differs from developer environments in as many ways as possible. Develop incredibly detailed “strategic” plans. Frequently reassign underperformers to other teams. Pivot frequently.

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Mending the rift between business stakeholders and development teams

Xebia

In today’s business world, the synergy between stakeholders, product management and development teams are paramount. Customer’s problem At one of our major clients at Xebia customers complained, that the project velocity was inconsistent, while the development team seemed perpetually busy.

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9 tips for recruiting high-end IT talent

CIO

Recruiting and hiring high-end IT talent is among the most challenging tasks IT leaders face today. CIOs, and their recruiting teams, are well aware. I spoke to tech leaders, technical recruiters, and CIOs about how they have cracked this nut to hire the top-tier tech talent they need. Here is their advice.

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Developers Skill Assessment Software: Testing Beyond the Technical

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Skill assessment software has become the new buzzword in the software development industry. Recruiters are looking for highly skilled candidates to handle their software development duties. As a result, the demand for talented software developers is witnessing unprecedented growth.

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Top 10 Soft Skills for Software Developers in 2022

The Crazy Programmer

There was a time when the companies evaluated the performance of a software engineer based on how quickly they delivered the tasks. But, 2022 is a different scenario in software development teams. Today called developers, professional software engineers are aware of the importance of soft skills. Creativity.

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Forecasting 2023 Recruiting Trends With 6 Experts

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Start planning your tech hiring needs as per your business requirements, revamp your recruiting processes, and come up with creative ways to land that perfect “unicorn candidate”! So before you put together your plans, ask yourselves this—What are the most important 2023 recruiting trends in tech hiring that you should be prepared for?

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Prog.ai wants to help recruiters find technical talent by inferring skills from GitHub code

TechCrunch

Prog.ai , as the company is called, allows recruiters to search for developers based on their technical skills, libraries they have used or simply the contributions they have made to projects on GitHub. for tech recruiters, and in April we are going to extend our SaaS offering with Prog.ai ” Under the hood, Prog.ai