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Many developers say that growth opportunities are one of the most important things for them when it comes to staying in a job. However, for a tech lead figuring out how to cater for everyone’s career goals can be hard. That’s why Julian Springer, Technical and Career Manager at Singular Systems, has set up ‘contribution sessions’ with his developers every month to track progress and solve any niggles before they become bigger problems. Here’s how he does this. Watch the video, and read the blog post here! (http://bit.ly/3aPgiHM)

When scaling one’s responsibilities as a tech leader, it can be hard to not feel anxious about whether or not you have the leadership experience you need to thrive — be it moving from startup to enterprise, or vice versa. Calvin Hawkes, former Product Lead at Trivago, says that even though he moved from a startup to an enterprise, his experience as a product lead at a startup actually made him a better product lead at an enterprise. In this conversation, he shares the lessons he applied from his startup experience to his enterprise leadership role, and how it gave him a unique strength.Watch the video here! (https://bit.ly/3aLNorQ)

Being a remote leader is hard enough, but being a remote leader in a different time zone is even harder. Ashley Sanders is Signific’s Director of Tech, and sits roughly eight hours behind his tech team, in another country. In this conversation, he shares the operating system he’s developed for himself, and his team, to ensure that he is not a blocker to his team’s productivity, that his team can still ask him for support, and that he can still provide his team with what they need to thrive.Watch the video here! (https://youtu.be/5ZkPGJw4dRs)

As tech teams around the world embrace remote work to varying degrees, tech leaders need to adapt their leadership to suit the new environment. Understanding what that means in practice, however, is hard. Mike Scott, CEO and co-founder at NONA, learned an important lesson in his time as a remote leader, namely that: Remote leadership is not the same as remote work, and strategies for the latter won’t necessarily work for the former. Being a remote leader requires a new approach, and in this conversation Mike shares what he’s found effective for getting this right.Watch the video here! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9IJuYS974I&feature=youtu.be) 

When communication structures and organisation design happen by accident — ie. they are not set up in parallel to each other — it tends to result in greater cognitive loads on developers, slower development speeds, and suboptimal workflows and productivity. This is why Richard Bailey, Executive VP of Engineering at Entersekt, used intentional organisation design to construct a new team structure around Entersekt’s product architecture so that his teams’ communication could mirror their architecture’s communication structures, and reduce cognitive load on developers. Here's how he did that.Watch the video, and read the blog post here! (http://bit.ly/2ORq4AC)

Being a leader can make it hard to take time off, and feel confident that your team will continue to thrive without you there. Chiedza Muguti, Head of Product at Penta, experienced this first hand when she had to take 10 weeks of medical leave, and saw how her team's systems failed when she wasn't around. Since then, she has set up a competency framework and a succession — or handover — plan that she uses to help her team succeed with or without her there. Here, she shares what this framework looks like and how it’s helped her team become more independent.Watch the video and read the blog post here! (http://bit.ly/3olrwY1)

Many technical recruiters acknowledge that hiring developers is particularly hard. They often don’t have a background in tech, and traditional approaches to recruiting often don't work because of how a developer thinks and what they're looking for in their careers. That's why Mark Deubel, Senior Tech Recruiter at Elastic, has found it useful to collaborate with his hiring manager and their team to learn more about the candidates that he's reaching out to. Here's how he approaches this.Watch the video and read the blog post here! (http://bit.ly/3pLklts)

Technical interviews are part of most companies' hiring process, and are one of the most important stages. But Ed O’Reilly and David O’Reilly, COO/Co-founder and CTO at NONA respectively, have found that they’re often limited in focus, and treated as a screening procedure more so than an engagement opportunity. In their experience, this reduces their efficacy and negatively impacts candidate experience. Here are three ways they make their tech interviews more interactive, get a better understanding of a candidate, and still leave them with an engaging experience.Watch the video and read the blog post here! (http://bit.ly/3r1nSEx)

While your talent pool for high quality developers increases when you open up your hiring remotely, so does the competition. Now, companies across the world — from small startups, to ‘big tech’ — are trying to attract the same developers. In this audio documentary, we get advice from the best in tech hiring at Codility, Recruitee, and co., and unpack what companies getting remote hiring right are doing. Here is what it takes to hire top tech talent in a remote world.To read OfferZen’s full ‘Developer Remote Work’ report, download it here! (http://bit.ly/3iGqFA5)And check out the blog post here! (https://bit.ly/3sRumHM)

Undergoing a tech transformation is a big undertaking for any tech team. Sadhana Gopal, Engineering Manager at Independer, has learned that being able to measure the value of the transformation is just as important as the technical roadmap you create for actually carrying out the transformation. She unpacks how she measures the value of a tech transformation while it’s happening, so that her team can stay agile and adapt to changes as they arise. Watch the video and read the blog post here! (http://bit.ly/34fnau9)

Every team has a mix of roles, and a range of technical to more non-technical people. This can make it challenging for software developers and data scientists to communicate effectively with each other, as well as with other people in their broader team, in a way that they understand. Daphne Cheung, Data Scientist at Disney, has used her background in business to hack communication in a way that lets her communicate better with anyone. This is her advice to help leaders help their teams do it too.⭐️ You can download Daphne’s 5-slide presentation template here! (https://bit.ly/3gqYSlQ) ⭐️ And you can watch the video and read the blog post here! (https://bit.ly/3m3xP18)

If teams aren't given the right environment to thrive, they will be unmotivated and won't perform to their best. Arjen de Ruiter, VP of Engineering at Sendcloud, has found ways to let his team be creative and vulnerable, which has made them more motivated to excel. In this conversation, Arjen shares how he helps motivate his team, as well as the positive impact this has for his business.Watch the video, and read the blog post here! (https://bit.ly/36rMm22)===========================================================🤔 Curious to know how developers feel about working from home and the 'remote revolution'? Download OfferZen's 2020 Developers Remote Work Report here:🔗 https://bit.ly/3joTIaC  ===========================================================

Leading a team and managing one’s focus effectively can be a tricky balance to strike. Not to mention keeping up a day job, working on side projects, building up a professional profile, and still finding new ways to stay relevant as a developer.That’s why we spoke to Antoine van der Lee, Team Lead and iOS Dev at WeTransfer, about how he approaches delegating tasks, managing his time, and winning at team leadership. We also touched on how he manages his career, personal brand and avoids burnout.🔗Are you a team lead? Watch the video, and read the Q&A here! (https://bit.ly/2V1zOb6)🔗Are you a developer? Watch the video, and read the Q&A here! (https://bit.ly/379chKX)===========================================================🤔 Curious to know how developers feel about working from home and the 'remote revolution'? Download OfferZen's 2020 Developers Remote Work Report here:🔗 https://bit.ly/3joTIaC ===========================================================

Being an attractive company for tech talent is ever more important in a remote world where candidates can work for any tech company from anywhere in the world. Peter Ferreira, Head of Recruitment at Dariel, has found that focusing on authenticity is the key to attracting great talent in our new online world. He shares some of the ways he has been doing this, and why it's proved more effective than just scrubbing job boards.Watch the video, or read the blog post here! (https://bit.ly/38TQ2ew)===========================================================🤔 Curious to know how developers feel about working from home and the 'remote revolution'? Download OfferZen's 2020 Developers Remote Work Report here:🔗 https://bit.ly/3joTIaC ===========================================================

Recruitee’s 2020 State of Remote Hiring report shows clearly that companies that are successful at remote hiring all get one thing right: Candidate experience. Here's why that's so important in a remote world, and some suggestions for improving candidate experience in your hiring process.Watch the video, or read the blog post here! (https://bit.ly/3pVAwVM)===========================================================🤔 Curious to know how developers feel about working from home and the 'remote revolution'? Download OfferZen's 2020 Developers Remote Work Report here:🔗 https://bit.ly/3joTIaC  ===========================================================

Hiring developers remotely means that location is no longer a constraint for who talent recruiters can reach out to. However, ‘remote’ means different things for different people, and this makes a recruiter’s job really hard, and can negatively impact the success of a remote hire. Oliver Short, Founder and Tech Recruiter at SEEKR, has learned that by aligning a developer’s and a company’s motivators at the start of his process, and clearly defining what each person means by remote work, he’s better able to match a developer with the role in which they are most likely to not only succeed in, but also stay in In this discussion, Oliver shares two ways in which he approaches sourcing and recruiting tech talent in a remote world.Watch the video or read the blog post here! (https://bit.ly/3erj5Hk)===========================================================🤔 Curious to know how developers feel about working from home and the 'remote revolution'? Download OfferZen's 2020 Developers Remote Work Report here:🔗 https://bit.ly/3joTIaC ===========================================================

Although everyone has had a taste of remote work, we’re still learning about the challenges that come with it, and how to get it right. Codility and OfferZen collectively surveyed over 2300 engineers globally on how they feel about remote work and recently released reports on their findings. In this discussion, Rachel Whitehead, VP of Marketing at Codility, and Stephen van der Heijden, VP of Growth at OfferZen, unpack some of the insights from the reports, and discuss what they’ve seen it takes for tech companies to win at remote work.Watch the video and read the blog post here! (https://bit.ly/3mw7d9z)===========================================================Chapter summary:[04:00] Intros to Rachel and Codility, and Stephen and OfferZen[17:00] "Lay of the land": What's the current state of remote work as you experience it?[23:00] Gen Z/Gen X/Millenial split on opinions around remote work[27:00] Importance of personalising remote experience for teams[30:00] What are the tech companies who are getting it right doing well?[46:00] Ideas around how to build trust in a team, and why that matters[50:00] Impact of remote work on remote hiring: Remote hiring policy is a 'must'===========================================================🤔 Curious to know how developers feel about working from home and the 'remote revolution'? Download OfferZen's 2020 Developers Remote Work Report here...🔗 https://bit.ly/3joTIaC ... And download Codility's 2020 Developers Remote Work Report here!🔗 https://bit.ly/3kIL3jV  ===========================================================

We’re constantly working to bring you useful insights to help you thrive in the tech industry – and what better way to do that than hear it straight from the experts themselves! We started the OfferZen Podcast a year ago to get behind-the-scenes insights, advice, and tips from the best in tech hiring and tech leadership. Here are some of the highlights.Read the highlights blog post here! (https://bit.ly/3kgwwvS)Do you know a thought-leader in tech? Or do you yourself want to feature in a podcast episode? Please get in touch! I’d love to hear your recommendations.And please send me any of your feedback and questions! Hearing about your experiences with the podcast helps us improve, and also gives us a cool excuse to get to know to some of the people we chat to through ‘the void!’ ;-)Do you know a thought-leader in tech? Or do you yourself want to feature in a podcast episode? Please get in touch! I’d love to hear your recommendations.

Many remote teams are likely familiar with the challenge of excessively long (or drawn out) remote meetings that feel disengaging. Jan Ambroziewicz, Senior Product Manager at Codility, realised that his team needed to be more deliberate about how they run remote meetings, and so decided to reevaluate their meeting structure. By splitting meetings into two parts — one asynchronous, and one synchronous — his team could come more prepared to meetings, and use that time for engaging, and productive conversations. In this article, he shares how he did that.Watch the video, and read the blog post here! (https://bit.ly/2TfuS1D)-------------------------🤔 Curious to know how developers feel about working from home and the 'remote revolution'? Download our Developers Remote Work Report 2020 here! (https://bit.ly/3joTIaC)-------------------------

Most software developers have to decide between managerial experience and tech seniority at some point in their careers. Hannes de Jager is a VP of Engineering turned senior software developer. At some point as a manager, he realised there was something missing - his heart was in actually building software. That’s why he made the decision to move back into coding and development, and now he's a senior software dev at bol.com.In this episode, he shares how he used psychometric tests and 360 reviews with people in his network to get to know himself better, and make his career move with confidence.Watch the video, and read the blog post here! (https://bit.ly/2Ix7OJD)-------------------------🤔 Curious to know how developers feel about working from home and the 'remote revolution'? Download our Developers Remote Work Report 2020 here! (https://bit.ly/3joTIaC)-------------------------