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Hire people who give a shit.
The team is everything. That moment of bringing people in sets the ceiling of possibility. The new hire is as serious to the health of the team as an organ transplant is to the health of the body. You want the best people you can find, and the ones who will contribute most positively to the team.
Amy Whitaker • Art Thinking: How to Carve Out Creative Space in a World of Schedules, Budgets, and Bosses
Don’t work for a company you would not invest money in, because when you are working you are investing the most valuable thing you have: your time.
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Whenever I interview a job candidate, their first question is often, “What’s the culture like?” I used to struggle to answer; where do you even start? Tomes have been written on organizational culture. Now, though, I think most of the time people are really asking these questions: How much autonomy will I have? Will I feel included? Will it be safe
... See moreTanya Reilly • The Staff Engineer's Path
Another thing to consider is that one of the most important factors for success of a company is the quality of its engineers. The best way to lower development costs is to hire great engineers: they don’t cost much more than mediocre engineers but have tremendously higher productivity. However, the best engineers care deeply about good design. If y
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