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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. Also, read: Keeping Culture Alive: What Recruiters Can Do While Hiring Remotely. Hippocrates, who? The Greek physician Hippocrates (ca. Interesting, hmmm….

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Why did file sharing drive so much startup innovation?

TechCrunch

Framed by Kalanick as his “revenge business” after his previous P2P startup Scour was sued into oblivion for copyright infringement, Red Swoosh would be the precursor for Expensify’s future culture and ethos. And of course, NS1 was birthed from the same alumni network.

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How engineering managers can effectively support engineers, teams, and organizations

CircleCI

The typical job description for many engineering manager roles is action-packed. It is a mix of hands-on coding, technical leadership and decision making, process and project management, product oversight, people management, finding and hiring talent … the list goes on. What do engineers need to thrive at work?

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Headcount goals, feature factories, and when to hire those mythical 10x people

Erik Bernhardsson

You can’t really measure it, of course. But all managers try, when they set the salary of Alice to $110,000 and Bob to $115,000. So on some level, managers certainly believe they have some precise idea of the relative value of each engineer. This bubbles down to a junior engineering manager. You don’t know!

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High-Touch Leadership in Buffer’s Fully Remote Culture

Gitprime

Managers can hold space and build a culture where mental health is prioritized, and being frank about promoting it sure helps. But managers are also not mental health professionals, which is why Buffer offers employees other avenues for seeking professional assistance and guidance. Womersley relies heavily on transparency.

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Why I Bailed on My STEM Career

Change Starts Here

These two things together – learning that I needed more influence myself and that it was better to engage employees in improving their own jobs, led me to doing a lot of research and ultimately enrolling in an MBA program with a focus on leadership and change management.

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Wilco gamifies your path through your software engineering career

TechCrunch

That’s why we immediately started pitching Wilco to every engineer and engineering manager we could talk to. Additionally, I’m honestly just really excited about the team we’ve brought in and the culture we’ve all built together. What are you hoping to accomplish over the next 18 or so months?