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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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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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High-Touch Leadership in Buffer’s Fully Remote Culture

Gitprime

So she ensures that her remote teams socialize together, no matter where they live. And it’s intentionally done—think more the office lunch out, more so than the water cooler banter—because socialization is necessary for even the most introverted human beings. “We It’s essential that people are actively supported in doing that.”.

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How to hire a software developer in a candidate-driven market

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Always have a hiring manager/engineering manager alongside to answer all technical questions that the candidate might ask you. There’s tons of anecdotal data and conventional wisdom about the interview process and culture of any company out there. Not everyone is active on social media sites such as LinkedIn and Twitter.

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Managing From Afar: How This Engineering Manager Tackles the Challenges of Remote Work

Gitprime

How should remote engineers support themselves, since they lack the interpersonal support of a co-located office? Nassim Kammah , who recently joined Elastic as a Senior Engineering Manager, believes that leading a distributed team is really not so different than leading a co-located one. Then, be there to support them.”.

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Exploring the transition from Developer to Engineering Manager

Seerene

Having begun as an Engineer with my company, Seerene, I transitioned from this role to a position as Engineering Manager some two months ago. Just as any individual would when they’re about to start in a new position, I started familiarising myself with blog posts and other literature written by seasoned managers.

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Wilco gamifies your path through your software engineering career

TechCrunch

The use-cases we see are all net positive for the individual – helping them develop themselves professionally in an innovative manner – but there’s also a broad social benefit to Wilco in making professional development opportunities more accessible and equitable. What are you hoping to accomplish over the next 18 or so months?