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Building Great Software Engineering Teams : Recruiting, Hiring, and Managing Your Team from Startup to Success / by Josh Tyler
Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Buch (Online)Sprache: Englisch Reihen: SpringerLink BücherVerlag: [New York, NY] : Apress, 2015Beschreibung: Online-Ressource (XIV, 168 p. 6 illus, online resource)ISBN:- 9781484211335
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- QA75.5-76.95
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Zusammenfassung: Building Great Software Engineering Teams provides engineering leaders, startup founders, and CTOs concrete, industry-proven guidance and techniques for recruiting, hiring, and managing software engineers in a fast-paced, competitive environment. With so much at stake, the challenge of scaling up a team can be intimidating. Engineering leaders in growing companies of all sizes need to know how to find great candidates, create effective interviewing and hiring processes, bring out the best in people and their work, provide meaningful career development, learn to spot warning signs in their team, and manage their people for long-term success. Author Josh Tyler has spent nearly a decade building teams in high-growth startups, experimenting with every aspect of the task to see what works best. He draws on this experience to outline specific, detailed solutions augmented by instructive stories from his own experience. In this book you’ll learn how to build your team, starting with your first hire and continuing through the stages of development as you manage your team for growth and success. Organized to cover each step of the process in the order you’ll likely face them, and highlighted by stories of success and failure, it provides an easy-to-understand recipe for creating your high-powered engineering teamPPN: PPN: 1657490289Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-2-CWD
Contents; About the Author; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Challenge of Building an Engineering Team; Why Is It So Hard to Build an Engineering Team?; Tech Talent Is in Short Supply; Tech Culture Exaggerates the Problem; Identifying Top Performers Is Difficult; Hiring Is Hard; Management: The Overlooked Opportunity; What's in This Book; About Me: Why I Wrote This Book; Part I: Recruiting; Chapter 2: An Enlightened Approach to Recruiting; What Is Recruiting Enlightenment?; Get Your Hands Dirty; Recruiting as a Core Company Principle ; Summary
Chapter 3: Six Destructive Myths About Technical Recruiting Myth 1: You Need to Find More Candidates; Myth 2: Dealing with Visas Is Too Hard; Myth 3: Algorithmic Knowledge Trumps Everything; Myth 4: You Need to Find People with Experience; Myth 5: You Need to Find Local People ; Why You Should Build a Local Team; Why You Should Build a Distributed Team; Myth 6: You Should Avoid Recruiters; Summary; Chapter 4: Nine Steps to Recruiting Success; Step #1: Prepare Yourself for The Grind; Step #2: Prepare to Spend; Step #3: Identify the Top Qualities to Look For; Teachability
Step #4: Make Your Company Attractive Your Web Site ; Profiles on Other Sites; Step #5: Learn Where to Look for Engineers; Recruiting Remotely; The "Second Tier"; Step #6: Develop a Strategy for Visas; H-1B ; Hiring Discussions ; TN; E- 3 ; F-1 /OPT/ STEM ; J-1 ; Green Card (Permanent Residence) ; The Process; Labor Certification (PERM); Immigrant Petition (I-140) ; Costs ; H-1B Ramifications ; Successful Strategies; Cover the Costs ; Converting Graduates from F-1 to H-1B; J-1 Work Exchange Programs ; Canadians Have an Advantage; Summary of Visa Strategies
Step #7: Develop Your Training Program Step #8: Find a Recruiter; Roll Up Your Sleeves; Stay Involved; Characteristics of Great Recruiters; How to Find a Recruiter; Step #9: Establish Long-Term Solutions; Internships ; Co-Ops ; Open Source Projects ; Community Involvement ; Summary; Part II: Hiring; Chapter 5: Hiring Is Hard; Agreeing on a Strategy; Getting to "Yes"; Candidates Are Crafty; Keep Moving Fast; How Tight Should Your Deadline Be?; Negotiate Effectively; Have No Regrets ; Hire at the Limit ; Your Job Doesn't End with the Offer; Build a Connection
Connect with Students Start Preparing ; Summary; Chapter 6: The Myth of the Ninja Rockstar Developer; Where Did All These Ninjas and Rockstars Come From?; What's the Big Deal?; Better Terminology for Software Developers; Summary; Chapter 7: The Hiring Decision Checklist; What Is this Person's Ceiling?; How Does this Person Make Us Better?; Is this Person Teachable?; What Will this Person Work On?; Will We Like Being Around this Person?; Summary; Chapter 8: Making Interviews Fun for Your Team; The Importance of Fun Interviews; Fun for the Candidate; Fun for Your Team
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