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What is an engineering manager? Taking the step up
This fulfilling role takes you a step beyond a lead engineer. Find out how to best showcase your skills to land it.
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7 steps to navigate onboarding as a software engineer
Joining a new team can be both exciting and overwhelming
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How to hire the best talent with scalar interviews
Some favor open questions for interviews and others closed questions. But there’s a happy medium: scalar interviews.
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Decoding candidate experiences: A new era in tech hiring
Discover how tech hiring is evolving with insights on candidate experiences, market trends, and empathy-driven practices for creating an inclusive, transparent hiring process.
Editor’s picks
DEI is under threat, can you fight back?
Corporate DEI initiatives may be on life support, but there are steps progressive leaders can take to keep them on track and improve the health of their organizations.
London • June 16 & 17, 2025
A festival of engineering leadership
Essential reading
31 smart questions to ask in a software engineering interview
Interviews are a two-way street, don’t waste the opportunity to ask these smart questions.
On our Hiring playlist
De-coding the technical interview process: Emma Bostian in conversation
What if you had a cheat code for acing technical interviews?
Inclusive hiring is not a checkmark
Inclusion is the foundation of creating a level playing field for employees with all backgrounds to be heard, to be challenged, and to have an impact.
Retaining Your People After the Tech Boom
Discover how to retain talent during staff reductions by leading with empathy, building trust, and understanding employees’ motivators in times of economic and industry change.
What is the role of the engineering manager in the hiring process?
How can time-strapped engineering managers juggle hiring responsibilities alongside their day to day?
A festival of engineering leadership
London • June 16 & 17, 2025
More about Hiring
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How to define a new engineering role
Make sure to bring clarity to roles and responsibilities when creating new engineering roles.
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How the AI boom is bringing Silicon Valley back from the brink
Is Silicon Valley so over, or is it back?
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Ask Mathias: How can I avoid hiring folks working more than one job?
In the age of work from home, how can you certify that someone is only working one job at a time? Is it even a bad thing if they do?
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Content sponsored by Multiverse
Embrace apprenticeships to uncover hidden developer talent
Three lessons learned from two recent Meta apprentices.
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Content sponsored by X-Team
5 essential soft skills for remote team success
Communication, curiosity, ownership, urgency, and cultural sensitivity.
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Understanding stock options and RSUs as an engineer
Have you been offered stock options and RSUs as part of your compensation packages? Here’s all you need to know about managing them.
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How to flex your engineering capacity
Outsourcing? Contractors? Low/no code? It can be hard to know how best to supplement your engineering team.
Top Hiring videos
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Exploring A/B Testing: Leemay Nassery in conversation
Leemay lays out the fundamentals of A/B testing
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Remote Engineering Management: Alexandra Sunderland in conversation
What makes great remote leadership?
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Why is inclusion important and what are the aspects of an inclusive team?
Diversity is important, but at the same time, if we do not have an inclusive environment, the diverse teams we build can fall apart.
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The potential hidden inside a great 30-60-90 day plan
30-60-90 plans are a great way to set the tone and manage expectations with your new teammates.
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How to onboard remote engineering staff in four weeks
Building a world-class onboarding program is a lot of work, but the alignment and empowerment it gives new staff is invaluable.
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Let them learn! How to nurture great software engineers
Clare Sudbery shares some of the principles and techniques we used to help Made Tech build a highly successful and effective training programme.
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Assess beyond functional correctness and improve hiring funnel throughput
In this short 5-minute presentation, you’ll see data from 70,000 US-based early careers candidates that reveals how they perform on programming best practices, logic, and efficiency – and how much hiring funnel throughput can increase with a different approach to scoring.