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Learn Your Stakeholders (opens the original)
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I was going deep into a performance review for one of the engineers in my vertical and one area of development for them was stakeholder management, he had been making great progress around communication up until now, but, I’d noticed he’d communicate the same way regardless of who the person was he was speaking to. If he wanted to get to the next level, he’d need to understand the people in the room and become more aware of what to bring them and vice versa.Knowing your stakeholders becomes incr
We Killed the Take-Home Test (opens the original)
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I do a lot of interviews across the full spectrum of the process: from screening calls, to technical to culture fit to bar raisers. I’m averaging around 10-15 interviews a week during peak hiring seasons and I’ve for sure noticed a trend over the time i’ve been senior enough to understand how to interview.The industry started years ago (and some still do) with these long-winded interview processes, round after round of mind numbing introductions and questions that bang against the candidate like
Keeping the peace (opens the original)
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I used to avoid conflict like the plague. If a conversation had any chance of getting uncomfortable I would find a way around it, which then in turn meant softening feedback unnecessarily (i’m looking at you sandwich feedback), agreeing in meetings and then disagree after the fact or the worst one of them all, eventually wait for problems to resolve themselves. I always said to myself I was keeping the peace and being easy to work with. In reality, I was just scared of the conversation.<div clas
Go Build a Community (opens the original)
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An engineer from another part of the company reached out to me recently for advice. They wanted to start building a community around their discipline, partly to get better feedback on what their team builds, partly because the engineers in that discipline are spread across the company and weren’t really engaged with each other at all.If you like what you read, feel free to subscribe to stay up to date. I post stories on my journey as an engineering leader to help you become a better Human and E
Who sees your work? (opens the original)
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Performance review cycles come around once or twice a year depending on the company, I’ve been on both sides and the thing I keep noticing is how differently the two sides experience the same conversation and how much of what used to frustrate me as an engineer makes alot more sense from where I’m sitting now.I want to write about that because I don’t think all engineers really understand what’s happening on the other side of the table. I didn’t and I was an engineer for a long time.<p
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