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We all know how difficult (and expensive!) it is to convince brilliant engineers to join our team. The real challenge starts on Day 1 – What can we do to keep them happy and engaged? After all, bored people quit. If you know you should do better but ran out of ideas how – come on down!

We’ll talk about how to make their 1st day at work memorable, how to help them build a personal brand, how to figure out and sell our unique strength as a company (GitHub-style), why we should bring them to investors’ events and plenty more. In this talk I’ll share 8 tips you could apply to build happier engineering teams.