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Three tips for retaining key engineering talent

Use these three tips to foster the right environment for your engineering team and lower the rate of attrition.
April 07, 2023

Use these three tips to foster the right environment for your engineering team and lower the rate of attrition.

Back in 2017, I started my first role as the head of engineering at a cybersecurity startup. At the time, there were 50 people working at the company. About half of the company fell into the engineering category, spread across one quality assurance (QA) team and three dev teams. During that time, I learned a very valuable lesson about employee satisfaction and retention.

I wanted to create and onboard a new automation framework to quickly increase our testing coverage to 80% to help build confidence for our new Deceptions product.

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