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The skill that was always the job

For decades, writing good code and judging good code looked like the same skill. If you could build it well,

I meet a lot of engineering leaders running large teams, and there are two questions I end up asking almost

Ask an engineering leader why they can’t just use a standardized evaluation for their hiring, and you will hear

Ten years ago, I sat across from an engineering leader at a mid-sized product company in Bengaluru. We were talking

“I will give you confirmed headcount and a PO for 12 months. Just fill up the roles for me.

In 2006, Amazon did something that had nothing to do with selling books. They took the infrastructure they’d built to

We built CI/CD, observability, and cloud-native systems to make software delivery reliable. Then we left the most important input –

Ten years in, what have all these interviews and hires actually changed? In our first two blogs, we discussed the

Running one of the UK’s largest retail operations means your engineering org doesn’t get to move slowly. Millions of customers.

A consultancy’s entire business runs on one assumption: when a client project needs engineers, you can staff it. That assumption