Surviving Fast Scaling
summary
Rapid team growth examples include 0 to 100 in nine months then tripling to 300 and adding another 100 in six months, with concrete hiring practices: recruiters dedicated, hiring treated as a top-level objective, and staggered interviews. Onboarding tactics aim to reduce time to productivity from three months to two weeks via preconfigured laptops, written team charters and one-to-many teaching. Remote hires get a week of HQ face time (bring remote hires to HQ for a week). Practical, operational lessons and tradeoffs for scaling managers.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 0:52Dana Lawson Vp of Engineering at Github
- 2:48Scaling a Team
- 7:22Comments on the Onboarding Process
- 8:33Surviving Fast Scaling
- 14:23What Is Different about Engineering
- 18:23Surround Yourself with People You Trust
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