Items tagged with hiring

Domain expertise in Product Management

November 16, 2020 - 645 words
When you’re hiring software product managers, hire for product management skills. Looking for domain experts will reduce the pool of people you can hire and might just be worse for your product.
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How to scale your product team from one product manager to an entire organization

August 25, 2020 - 1371 words
As your product management team scales, you’ll have issues around redundancy, communication, and consistency. Here’s now you might solve those.
Also tagged as: productmanagement scale softwaremangement training

Software engineering manager interview questions

August 6, 2020 - 709 words
Here are some questions I like to use to get a sense of who an engineering manager is and how they work.
Also tagged as: 11s interviewing managers questions recruiting

Hiring a VP of Engineering or CTO For Non-Techie (First Time) Founders

January 17, 2008 - 64 words
Hiring a VP of Engineering or CTO For Non-Techie (First Time) Founders — How to...
Also tagged as: cto engineering management startups technology

Hiring rock stars

November 8, 2007 - 149 words , 3 comments
The best employees probably don’t want to work for you.
Also tagged as: frankdemmler startups

Senior roles in early stages

October 15, 2007 - 369 words
Should you go after senior people or junior people at the early stages of a startup?
Also tagged as: investment startup

First impressions

October 8, 2006 - 35 words , 1 comment
Studies have shown that first impressions correlate closely to evaluations based on extensive knowledge. What...
Also tagged as: firstimpression interviewing