Build & Manage Engineering Team
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Claims hiring is a project: decide roles, levels, timeline and hire via personal networks, job sites, recruiters and coding contests like Topcoder for juniors; involve cross-team stakeholders for senior hires. Recommends picking team structure (delivery, functional or hybrid), treating cultural diversity as an asset, staying involved in technical decisions even if not coding, measuring people with context-aware metrics, diagnosing low performers by root cause, and deliberately coaching or rotating high performers so motivation and delivery actually improve.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:19Why engineering management needs to be addressed
- 2:46Hiring is a project
- 3:46Hiring pipeline
- 5:29Hire -Sr engineers
- 6:31Hire - Mid level engineers
- 6:54Hire - Jr engineers
- 7:38Assembling a team
- 8:09Team structure
- 9:04Why is engineering management becoming more difficult?
- 9:18Increasing cultural/skills diversity in the team
- 10:23Involvement in engineering decisions
- 12:06Matrix organizations
- 12:49Motivate the team
- 14:05Evaluation and Rewarding team members
- 16:08Working with low performers
- 18:11Working with high performers
- 20:20Any Questions
