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Are Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta bankrolling AI with layoffs?
Workforce cuts appear to be funding the AI race.
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Guardrails, not gates: Scaling juniors in the AI era
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Meta and the great DEI rollback
Once an emblem of inclusivity, Meta has officially joined tech’s anti-DEI bandwagon.
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Inclusive hiring is not a checkmark
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Retaining Your People After the Tech Boom
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Beware of fake job candidates
Remote hiring has opened the door to a stream of fake engineering candidates, with hiring managers having to be vigilant to highly credible applications. Here are some red flags to look out for.
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What is a tech lead? First among equals on a developer team
A tech lead isn’t a manager and may not even get a raise. But it’s a reflection of your leadership skills as you climb the ladder.
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Going from staff engineer to engineering manager
This transition can be both exciting and daunting, with engineers having to navigate unfamiliar territory, balancing technical prowess with people management skills.
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Are you ready for pay transparency?
New pay transparency laws are spreading across the globe, how should you prepare?
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What does the end of affirmative action mean for engineering managers?
A landmark US Supreme Court decision on ending affirmative action in education could have massive widespread effects for diversity and inclusion efforts in the corporate world. Here’s what engineering managers need to know.
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What is a staff engineering manager and how can you become one?
Staff engineering manager is a rewarding position that has you cultivating different types of relationships and projects.
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What AI has to offer: Using LLM tools in interviews
AI is changing the face of the tech industry. Learn about the current AI climate, its pros and cons, and how AI tools can help in your company’s interview processes.
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Efficient interviewing techniques
Here are some steps you can take, from the start of the interview process to the end, that can help you make the right hire.
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Intersectional & Inclusive Standards for Developers
Give a developer readable code and they can code for a day, teach a developer best practices and coding standards and they can be a valuable addition to any engineering team.
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Build a Better Hiring Process with Design Thinking
How do companies hire? And how does a manager build out a hiring process from the ground up?
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Creating goal-setting workshops for managers in your 1:1s
Often when we talk about goals, they’re from the perspective of the individual: how do you come up with goals for yourself? How do you achieve those goals?
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Building compassion
Despite our focus on wellness tools, apps, and the desperate desire to code away vulnerability in the tech industry, talking about pain can still be uncomfortable.
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Crafting hiring processes that reduce bias and create consistency
It’s not just about what happens in the interview
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Perspectives on what a culture of belonging actually looks like
Building a culture that is equitable is an essential part of your job; and an essential part of equitability is belonging.
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How to have compassionate conversations about difficult sh*t
How can you have compassionate conversations around racism, transphobia and all forms of oppression?
