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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.
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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.
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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.
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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What is a Director of Engineering? The glue keeping engineering together
A director of engineering is responsible for keeping an entire engineering function humming. Find out what skills you need to climb the ladder to this vital position.
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How to remove the pain from hiring
Recruitment doesn’t have to be a nightmare. Here’s how to create a pain-free hiring process.
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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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How to survive the tech layoffs storm
Mass layoffs are taking place at the biggest of big tech firms – but how do you brush yourself off and keep going? Dot-com crash survivors tell LeadDev how to weather the storm.
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How to create an interview rubric that actually works
Interview rubrics are a great way to reduce bias. Here’s how to build a rubric for any technical role.
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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?
Top Hiring videos
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How tech hiring fails us all
From the outrageous to the sad, hiring experiences in tech can be really … bad! For the hiree and the hirer! From both sides of the table, Crystal has seen illegal and immoral behaviour — choices that damage companies as much as they damage individuals. Let’s do better. Please. We can improve this.
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The Inclusive Leader: Tips for Developing Diverse Engineering Teams
Managing people is hard. Managing people who aren’t like you is harder. As we push to build more diverse teams, how do we ensure everyone can succeed equally?
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Lending privilege as engineering leaders
Diversity and inclusion have become hot topics in technology, but you may not know how you can make a difference. This talk will help you understand that, no matter your background, you have privilege and can lend it to marginalized groups in tech.
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5 Ways You Can Hire Engineers Better
For most companies, hiring is a cargo-culted, cut-and-pasted affair, run by people not trained to perform the task.
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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?