Enlarge your team!
summary
How to scale an engineering team from small to medium using concrete practices: a hiring process based on ‘meet five people in a half day’ with vetted interviewers; a three-week onboarding program and prepared workspace; engineering hygiene like one-command deploys, rollbacks, solid tests and CI; a documentation culture (‘what’s not written doesn’t exist’); and hiring remote workers anywhere. The talk evaluates whether these specific processes, numbers and tools determine successful scaling.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:50First hires and values
- 2:55Captain Train recruitment
- 4:58Employer image
- 6:41Onboarding new hires
- 8:47Training and integration
- 10:53Documenting decisions
- 12:59Automating processes
- 13:21Remote hiring benefits
- 14:48Work-life balance
- 15:08Managing departures
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