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Evaluating Candidates

I seem to have spent much of my career interviewing candidates for engineering positions.  Interviewing is an art that I have tried to make as objective as possible.  I grade each candidate in the following five areas (these are in … Continue reading

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Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE)

I just finished reading Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It by Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson. This is another great book I will add to my management toolkit. The book is a case study of a multi-year project … Continue reading

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Finding Top Talent

Hire the best. No, hire the best of the best. I always say no engineer is better than a bad engineer. Agile development methodologies require highly talented and motivated engineers to make the process work. Mediocrity doesn’t do it. A … Continue reading

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