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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.
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What UK engineering managers can expect to earn in 2024
Here’s what senior developers and engineering managers in the UK can expect to earn in 2024 and beyond.
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What US engineering managers can expect to earn in 2024
Here’s what senior developers and engineering managers in the United States can expect to earn in base salary during 2024 and beyond.
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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.
Editor’s picks
Rethinking your engineer hiring strategy in 2024
Tech hiring is going through an intense period of change, how do you adapt?
November 4 & 5, 2025
The leadership conference for tech leads and engineering leaders.
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.
Optimizing the time you and your team spend on hiring
Hiring engineers is intensive, so how can you streamline the hiring process and tap into top talent?
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?
November 4 & 5, 2025
The leadership conference for tech leads and engineering leaders.
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Hiring engineering managers: The role, process, and current market
Hiring good engineering managers remains a challenge in the current economic and recruiting climate, but finding the right person for the role is worth the effort.
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Grassroots tactics for building community
The cookout will still happen, even if we have to pay for it ourselves.
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What makes a front-end developer in 2023?
The responsibilities we once considered fundamental for front-end developers are changing rapidly. Here’s where we see the role going in 2023.
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Learning to enjoy the career progression journey
Reaching a management position in the tech industry is hard work. It’s important to remember to enjoy the journey and celebrate victories big and small along the way.
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What is a lead developer? A leader amongst their peers
A lead developer will still get their hands dirty in the codebase, but needs to know how to hire, lead, and talk to management.
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4 hiring trends engineering managers can’t ignore in 2023
Has the bubble finally burst? Here are four hiring trends engineering managers should be aware of as we move into 2023.
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Creating a career progression framework for engineers
How to build a clear and transparent process for supporting career progression.
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Content sponsored by Karat
How to assess proficiency across 10 core technologies
Looking to hire engineers with specific skills? Here’s how to assess proficiency across common tools, frameworks, and environments.
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Designing effective criteria for assessing engineering candidates equitably
Unlock engineering talent through equitable hiring
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Finding potential in your interview processes
Hiring engineers is hard. And with over half of C-suite executives saying that the future of their company relies on being able to source engineering talent, making the correct decisions about who to hire has the potential to transform the fortune of your company.
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12 steps to becoming a better engineering interviewer
An email in your inbox. A conversation with your boss. The company is hiring and you’re to be part of it – you’re going to be an interviewer.
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How to succeed at hiring without really trying
Hiring good people can be hard. Keeping good people can be hard. It’s made easier though if you can set your company apart as a place that people want to work at. But how do you make the community aware that that’s the case?
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The positives and negatives of networks and tech hiring
In a fast developing industry such as tech, the acquisition and retention of talent is a crucial success factor. Often, hiring through personal networks can lead to a quicker and more successful hiring process than traditional methods – and sometimes contacts can even encourage under-represented groups to apply for positions they wouldn’t consider otherwise.
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Building and Scaling a Distributed and Inclusive Team
The current status quo in running and scaling out teams is to have everyone work in the same office or in offices across different locations.
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Rethinking the Developer Career Path
Our current methods for measuring a developer’s career progression are broken. At best, we count the number of days someone’s been paid to write code and massage that into a title. As a result, there’s no consensus as to what a given title means, leading to frustration for everyone.