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How to Nail the Phone Screen Interview(zacsky.com)
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HR for Engineering Teams(zacsky.com)
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by zacsky 9y ago
This is a constant challenge I have faced in leading software development teams... The tendency, especially early on in a product's lifetime, is to think everything is a top priority and therefore rely on the development estimates (i.e
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Value First, Price Second: Making good decisions in life and software development(zacsky.com)
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Running a Hackathon Your Team Loves(zacsky.com)
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Playing Games at Work(zacsky.com)
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by zacsky 9y ago
That is a good question! It made sense from the perspective that the product we were building was good but a little 'behind' our competitors and we needed to catch up. The scaling has allowed us to tackle new projects that utilise
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by zacsky 9y ago
Quality (for engineering skill AND attitude) was the top focus, salaries were market rate, and there are no options/RSUs involved. Thanks for the suggestions about the follow up to hiring and measuring success. It seems most of the com
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by zacsky 9y ago
Thanks for your comment. Glad you enjoyed the series. I did consider a 6th article looking at the longer term outcomes but decided at the time to cut it. Might have to reconsider as there seems to be good interest.
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by zacsky 9y ago
A lot of the things I recommend doing in the first month are just repeatable for the length of their employment. But there is a greater question I think you are asking around how do you know when you made a good hire? That's a big curl
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by zacsky 9y ago
In 2016, after being acquired by private investors, we were given the green light to triple our engineering team as fast as possible. In this article (part 3 of a 5 part series) I focus on all the preparations required before starting to hi
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Tripling an Engineering Team in Six Months: Setting Up for Success(zacsky.com)
71 points by zacsky 9y ago|44 comments
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by zacsky 9y ago
In 2016, after being acquired by private investors, we were given the green light to triple our engineering team as fast as possible. In this article (part 2 of a 5 part series) I dive deeper on how we actually planned the massive task we w
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Tripling an Engineering Team in Six Months – Planning to Scale (Part 2/5)(zacsky.com)
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by zacsky 9y ago
In November 2016 the company I worked for was acquired, injected with cash, and told to 'go faster'. Over the next six months I led a recruitment drive that saw the engineering team (more than) triple. This is a 5-part blog series
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Tripling an Engineering Team in Six Months (Part One)(zacsky.com)
1 points by zacsky 9y ago|1 comments