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Designing an engineering team: Making room for everyone

on YouTube 34m
Talkat RubyConf 2018 · 2018-11-28..11-30· [engineering-leadership]

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name:Jack Danger
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video:https://youtu.be/04bgdpAlAxU
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summary

Argues for hiring by mapped skills not vague titles, showing concrete comparisons (2017 had zero commercial jet deaths after role-based fixes), recommending explicit operating room roles on teams, measuring who owns product metrics, and keeping teaching hospitals (students) to lower failure rates. Gives tooling examples — on‑prem provisioning versus Fargate vs bare metal — and a promotion system example (Medium’s Snowflake). Proposes custom interview panels that test claimed skills, an onboarding that exchanges team and candidate abilities, and hiring people to fill missing roles.

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  1. 0:00Start
  2. 5:071. People have inherent ability
  3. 24:15Let's review
  4. 29:43The Team

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