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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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What the Californian pay transparency laws mean for engineering managers
California’s Senate Bill 1162 will force hundreds of thousands of businesses to share staff pay data publicly – but what does that mean for staff, and the wider working world?
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Three ways to remove bias from technical interviews
Want to know how to make better hiring decisions with less bias? Here are three steps to build a fairer process.
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Using interview rubrics to make more confident hiring decisions
What are interview rubrics and how can you build them into engineering recruitment processes?
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Ten reasons engineers choose to stay with an organization
Retaining great developers can be hard. Here are the ten company habits that make employees choose to stay, even when other options are available.
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Six ways to beat the tech talent shortage
Hiring engineers is hard. Here’s the quick guide to doing it better.
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How to hire the right engineers for your team
A guide to recruiting the best developers for your organization
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What to do when a beloved employee quits
How to create a smooth transition for your report, your team, and your organization when someone hands in their notice.
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Content sponsored by SHL
Six inclusive hiring tips to attract the right engineers for your org
How to create inclusive hiring processes and bring in the talent you need
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Bootstrapping inclusion in engineering organisations
Diversity and Inclusion are hot topics right now. But, year after year, our industry fails to move the numbers significantly. It seems everyone is talking about it, but how do you actually bring about change?
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How to hold career path conversations with developers
Our industry is not the best at preparing developers to grow their careers when they reach the critical point when they have to decide between continuing to work as an individual contributor or moving into management.
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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
