People: How do you provide a good candidate experience during the technical assessment?

Tips on providing a positive candidate experience for software engineers undertaking a technical assessment, for busy managers and founders of growing technology companies – from the 2021 series of Threads discussions. Discussion host: Adam Dangoor, senior engineer, technical interviewer and interview coach. Context The best software engineers will often have a choice of which companyContinue reading “People: How do you provide a good candidate experience during the technical assessment?”

Ops: How should you adapt your approach, as a leader of remote engineers?

Tips on adapting your leadership to guide your remote software engineers. Discussion host: Robert Turnbull, Agile Coach and Director of Agile Services Context The honeymoon period of exploring remote working is over. It’s now business as usual. Things won’t ‘go back’ to how they were, things will ‘go through’ to the new normal – beContinue reading “Ops: How should you adapt your approach, as a leader of remote engineers?”

People: How do you interview a software engineer/developer on engineering rigour?

Tips on interviewing software engineers/developers for the required level of engineering rigour, for busy managers and founders of growing technology companies – from the 2021 series of Threads discussions. Discussion host: Adam Dangoor, senior engineer, technical interviewer and interview coach. Context Many interview processes assess familiarity with a technical stack, but this only tells partContinue reading “People: How do you interview a software engineer/developer on engineering rigour?”

Ops: Remote engineering practices; the same or different?

Tips on adapting your approach to aid productivity for your remote software engineers – from the 2020 series of Threads discussions. Discussion host: Robert Turnbull, Agile Coach and Director of Agile Services Context Pre-pandemic, there was a trend towards exploring remote engineering practices, but the rapid adoption has seen the communication methods and tooling beingContinue reading “Ops: Remote engineering practices; the same or different?”