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Hey, I’m Yassine. I spend a big chunk of my time digging into Engineering Management and Talent Acquisition, especially where the two overlap. I share the most interesting resources I come across in this newsletter. It’s curated for busy tech leaders who can’t afford to spend as much time on this topic as I do. I hope you find the insights helpful.

Hiring Engineers

• Non-digitally native companies routinely find themselves outbid for tech talent or bypassed by highly experienced candidates. That indicates that they need to take a different approach to hiring and retaining talent—one that moves from focusing on narrow specialization and takes a broader view of people’s potential.
• Approaches for recruiting and retaining Gen Z talent
• LinkedIn “Diversity Nudges” feature to help recruiters find a diverse group of candidates
• Being a good human will pay off when you’re hiring
• Solving the DevOps labor deficiency
• August hiring strong but slowing, unemployment rate rises
• How leaders can inspire career trajectory in the “great resignation”

Managing?Engineers

• Discover how psychology, neuroscience & mindfulness tools can help engineering leaders overcome challenges, communicate successfully, and foster a culture of empathy. Also, learn more about identifying personality types, uncovering unconscious traits/patterns, shifting from the comfort zone to the growth zone, and how to be a transformative leader. [podcast]
• Setting the right goals for your engineering teams
• The power of mentoring and apprenticeships
• Introducing getting along [podcast]
• The fear to identify as a leader
• Developing peers and leveling up your mentorship skills
• Netflix’s historic introduction of levels for software engineers
• How engineering, design, and product form the ‘software trinity’
• Engineer SHORT feedback loops
• Why Manager READMEs are no longer recommended
• How tech insiders do fitness recovery
• Virtual whiteboarding is a remote work superpower
• Why employers should embrace quiet quitting

Remote Hiring

• While many companies transitioned to hybrid work,?about 36.5 million people in the United States worked remotely at least five days a week as of early August, according to the?Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey. As leaders develop post-pandemic policies, one concern about remote work commonly surfaces: Can a company build and maintain culture if workers are remote?
• How to get remote recruiting right
• Managing remote team: guide for startups
• Labor secretary Walsh on remote work: flexibility is key
• Greene County joins others offering remote work options in the competitive job market
• Remote work applications nearly doubled this year, and there are no signs of slowing
• Companies need to be better at hiring, not firing

Remote Trend

• Germany is the top country for remote work, according to the?Global Remote Work Index by NordLayer,?a business security solution by Nord Security. It is followed by Denmark, the USA, Spain, Lithuania, Netherlands, Sweden, Estonia, Singapore, and France. The report evaluated 66 countries in total.
• Work from home leaves Americans feeling lonely and isolated
• Millions of workers aren’t coming back to the office
• Remote work debate intensifies as companies mandate return to office after Labour Day
• Texas area ranked among best places in US for remote work
• The Washington Post’s CEO wants to blame remote work for poor performance. The numbers don’t add up

Misc.

• Check out this popular episode of Changelog, with lots of hot takes, disagreements, and unpopular opinions about building actually maintainable software and what goes into that. [podcast]
• Speed up your monorepo workflow in Git
• Test your software supply chain security know-how
• Botnets in the age of remote work
• Lessons learned from programming at Google w/ Hyrum Wright & Titus Winters [podcast]
• Guide to secure software development passes on content but fails on communication
• What are open source databases and why do they matter?
• Measuring SSR performance of 6 JS frameworks
• Amazon introduces encrypted communication service AWS Wickr
• Five book recommendations for engineering leaders
• How to challenge outdated workplace norms
• Focus on behavior, not state, for a more maintainable codebase
• Introducing the new, larger GitHub-hosted runners beta

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