Role of a Flutter Competence Lead in a Scaling Company
summary
Role defines three concrete duties: owning hiring (designing the take-home assignment, running technical interviews with a scorecard and seniority evaluation framework), driving external visibility through open source (built model_sheet package, 19 contributors, released 0.7.0 recently) and building internal community (one day a week dedicated, quarterly state-of-competence reviews, role rotates yearly). Company runs Flutter for merchant apps across 27 countries and 150,000 merchants and reports 18% more passive candidates after these efforts.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:55Hiring principles
- 10:02Streamlining interviews
- 17:13Evaluating candidates
- 19:38Community promotion
- 22:07Open source storytelling
- 24:34Community package impact
- 26:41Internal engineering communities
- 27:46Team technical direction
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