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Daily Crunch: Meta backs SMB e-commerce app launched by former Facebook engineering manager

TechCrunch

It’s getting hot in here : Software aimed at helping small businesses take online orders is on fire right now, and Meta is fanning the flames with a new investment in Take App — the Singapore-based startup that is providing simple tools for merchants to create a website and begin taking orders via WhatsApp, Paul reports.

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LinearB wants to help development teams optimize their workflows

TechCrunch

One of LinearB’s most important promises is that it goes beyond simply giving engineering managers access to more dashboards about developer efficiency. It does so by integrating with a wide variety of existing DevOps tools to aggregate data about how teams work. ”

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Using the Radical Candor Framework for Effective Engineering Management

Toptal

One tool that managers can consider adding to their management skill set is a practice called Radical Candor. Radical Candor is the ability to care emotionally about the engineer as an individual and valued contributor, while also expressing honesty concerning their efforts and results achieved by those efforts.

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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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Mozilla acquires Active Replica to build on its metaverse vision

TechCrunch

Ervin and Denis have assumed new jobs at Mozilla within the past several weeks, now working as senior engineering manager and product lead, respectively. ” Hubs provides the dev tools and infrastructure necessary to allow users to visit a portal through any browser and collaborate with others in a VR environment.

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The Ultimate Guide to High-Potential Identification in Tech Hiring

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

This guide will walk you through the strategies, tools, and frameworks to identify high-potential tech candidates effectively. In a tech team, a high-potential developer might quickly transition into a lead architect or engineering manager role. Assess their ability to: Drive the success of new initiatives or products.

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Use Git data to optimize your developers’ annual reviews

TechCrunch

Alex Circei is CEO and co-founder of Waydev , a Git analytics tool that measures engineers' performance automatically. The end of the year is looming and with it one of your most important tasks as a manager. Once you know what targets to set, you can use analytics tools to create automatic targets for each engineer.