Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager

Picking Who to Hire

Clearly before you start hiring you should know who exactly you want to hire. This might sound like one of the most obvious statements in the world, but there are subtleties to finding the right people to make your team even more effective. Hiring managers fall into some common traps when given the ability to hire anyone into their team:

• They just hire more engineers. No matter what the problem is, just throw more engineers at the problem, right?

• They just hire the most senior person possible. Surely the most senior candidate will have seen it all before. Forget about these people with only a few years’ experience. Let’s just get the experts in, surely?

• They hire people just like themselves. Culture fit means “one of us,” ...