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Oct 26 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
“Practical additive hiring

Additive qualities eg
- educator background (knew how to learn & ramp up)
- product thinking (drove ambiguous project to clarity & completion)”

Daniel Johnson #LeadDevSanFrancisco
“Improving tech screens:
1) Focus on details to quickly gauge technical skills
2) This is not a PR review
3) Find examples of success and try to uncover why
4) Their questions matter and are part of the interview
5) Train the interviewers”

Dan Johnson #LeadDevSanFrancisco
“Don’t lose focus on additive qualities just because of scale of the company!

Startups often better at interviewing for additive qualities”

Dan Johnson #LeadDevSanFrancisco
“Look beyond the code to what makes each engineer unique!”

Dan Johnson #LeadDevSanFrancisco

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Oct 27
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“Making code review a more inclusive & productive collaboration

1) Why it’s important
2) How to promote inclusive code reviews
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Shifalika Kanwar #LeadDevSanFrancisco
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Oct 27
Transitions into management

“With a flavour of failures, with a flavour of mistakes, with a flavour of exceptions”

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1) Person (right person for this transition to manager)

2) Environment (set them up to succeed)

Success = high performing team + “happy” manager + for a long time (2+ years)”

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[0) Care about people (non-neg) ]
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Oct 27
1) What is inclusive hiring?

“Inclusion is a foundation for setting and creating a level playing field for people to be given opportunities to succeed. Inclusion has to presume competence.”

@sushmars #LeadDevSanFrancisco
“Inclusive hiring is not just hiring underrepresented minorities and checking a box.

Diverse, motivated employees push the company forward so much more than companies that lack that”

@sushmars #LeadDevSanFrancisco
Why is inclusive hiring important?
1) foundation to diversity
2) diversity of thought
3) deepens the pool
4) enhances innovation

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Oct 27
I love the @TheLeadDev crowd so much. They just gave @carlaprvieira applause and whooping for explaining it’s her first time in the US and her first international conference talk here at #LeadDevSanFrancisco 🥰🥰🥰💖💖💖
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1) Bias & discrimination
2) Denial of individual autonomic rights
3) Non-transparent, unexplainable or unjustifiable outcomes
4) Invasions of privacy
5) Unreliable, unsafe or poor quality outcomes

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Oct 27
So @v_hue_g starts by recommending her 4th of July watchathon:

National Treasure
Hamilton
National Treasure 2

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@v_hue_g #LeadDevSanFrancisco
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We can use an incident as a catalyst for helping you understand how you think your org works versus how it actually works”

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