Building happier engineering teams
summary
Eight concrete moves: a checklist of 8 tips including a pledge that new hires can deploy change to production on your first day, a welcome kit tradition where the most recent hire prepares the next starter, and a weekly Medium-style Tuesday slot to fix nagging UI and technical-debt items. Use Amazon-style bar-raisers in interviews, document internal infra (e.g., how teams use Amazon Redshift or Spark), prioritize continuous deployment over added bureaucracy, and tie hiring to chosen sliders of purpose, autonomy, mastery.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:30Question
- 5:18What makes people happy
- 8:03Optimize for culture
- 10:51Purpose
- 12:29Optimism
- 14:11Culture
- 15:49Mission Statement
- 16:43Continuous Deployment
- 17:51Autonomy
- 23:22Building a personal brand
- 25:30Tell people
- 25:52Rent in your team
- 27:36Whats next
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