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Guidelines For Hiring the Best Software Developers

The Human Factor

This raises the difficulty of finding the top software engineers for a business given that many are bootstrapped and some are sponsored. All companies are now fundamentally tech companies, and employing software engineers is now a crucial task that greatly affects a startup’s long-term performance.

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The Kinds of Data Scientist

Harvard Business Review

Depending on the engineering background of these data scientists, these work products are either deployed directly to the production system, or if they are prototypes they are handed off to software engineers to help implement, optimize and scale them. What are the measures of success? What are some examples?

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How My Company Created an Apprenticeship Program to Help Diversify Tech

Harvard Business Review

And research shows that once women and people of color join tech companies, retention rates are much lower than that of white men, often due to bad treatment in the workplace. companies are failing to hire black, Latinx, and women Computer Science graduates. Women leave tech companies twice as fast as men do.

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Recognizing the Role of Emotional Labor in the On-Demand Economy

Harvard Business Review

These companies rely on customer ratings systems that often require workers to maintain near-perfect reviews. For example, Uber suggests that drivers “stay calm, patient, and polite with riders” in order to receive the best ratings, and that drivers should “never ask” for a five-star review.

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How Nextdoor Addressed Racial Profiling on Its Platform

Harvard Business Review

Members included product head Maryam Mohit, communications director Kelsey Grady, a product manager, a designer, a data scientist, and later a software engineer. Agile teams benefit from different perspectives, skills, and expertise, so the co-founders assembled a small, diverse team to tackle the issue.

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