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jaderubick··on The best approach I've seen for hiring junior engineers
0% written by AI.
jaderubick··on What do great engineering managers need to know about compensation and equity?
I’m the author. I would never advocate for pay levels to be based on years of experience personally.
jaderubick··on Great engineering teams focus on milestones instead of projects
I’m the author. No, not intending programs. Milestones are smaller than projects in my definition.
jaderubick··on Great engineering teams focus on milestones instead of projects
I’m the author. Most teams don’t work in this way in my experience. The key is how “milestone” is defined in the article.
jaderubick··on Great engineering teams focus on milestones instead of projects
A milestone == a mile marker. That is where the term came from.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milestone

I think the term is rather unimportant. You could also use the term epic.

jaderubick··on Infobits: A tool for situational awareness on teams
Perhaps a better title is: how to share nuggets of info with the people around you to help everyone work better together?
jaderubick··on Bundled hiring to double the effectiveness of your hiring process
You’re missing something. Metaphorically it is like the difference between having a long lived process that services web requests and spinning up your whole environment per request.
jaderubick··on Everyone Lies to Tech Leaders
Do you mind if I incorporate these into the blog post and mention you in the thank you?
jaderubick··on An Inside Look at How YouTube Scaled
Nuts and bolts of how the division was organized during its most rapid growth period.
jaderubick··on Everyone Lies to Tech Leaders
That seems better to me! Thanks for the feedback.
jaderubick··on Communication is like serializing JSON
Team communication suffers from the same challenges as serialization and deserialization.
jaderubick··on Everyone Lies to Tech Leaders
Why the environment tech leaders are in distorts their perception of reality and some tips for countering that.