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Cristina started her career as a software developer specialized in parallel computing. She became an engineering manager in 2015, after realizing how improving communication and processes could increase quality and speed of delivery, as well as employee satisfaction and growth.

She is passionate about tech for good, with jobs in the biological research and ad-filtering fields. She has participated as a mentor in several editions of Google Summer of Code, and pushed initiatives to improve engineers motivation in the organizations she has worked for.

Driving positive change through performance improvement plans

Cristina Yenyxe Gonzalez Garcia describes an approach to PIPs in which the manager helps to set the employee up for success.

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