At Kry, Paul and I developed our way of interviewing engineers as engineering managers, which worked quite well for us and I’m happy to share with you in this post. Setting Our Intention as Interviewers First of all, we realized how we want to approach interviewing. And for us, what we wanted is not to…

Who isn’t familiar with the problem of reducing tech debt while having ambitious product goals? It happens in every company. In the past year we’ve tackled this at Kry using different methodologies that helped our engineers to continuously get rid of the tech debt and create very little new debt…

Learn how it’s done the right way and what great things can happen as a result — “Scrum is an old way of working, meant to solve problems from another era. An organization working with continuous deployment doesn’t need it. There aren’t versions of the code. There’s no meaning to sprints. You are members of a cult with ceremonies that lost their meaning”. This tweet, by an…

In the past two years I’ve learned about the importance of these two values for engineering culture and high-performing teams, and I’ve found that like me, many great leaders and engineers practice these values or aspire to work in an environment that embodies them, but aren’t familiar with the terms…

How to create a recommendations database for professional growth in R&D — I’m excited to share our experience of creating a learning library for Kry’s R&D organization. What is it good for? We created this library to complement our development plans: they contain, for each topic that the employee wants to improve, a few columns, and one of them is resources they will use to grow in…

4 Exercises you can do with your team — If you work for a medium-large tech company, you probably had your yearly performance review cycle recently. We had it at Kry recently, and all employees received great preparation material from HR: a recorded session about how to use the tools, how to give feedback and how to avoid biases…

I was recently looking for a new job, and I’ve found a place I feel deeply that is the right place for me. Perhaps it’s the best fit among the 7 attempts in total that I’ve had with finding a good workplace for myself. It’s no coincidence. It was also…

I described in a separate post details about the process we’ve been doing recently in our engineering department, where we started working with levels for our engineers and QA. …

Why The good thing about levels, is the transparency. When it’s clear to people what’s expected of them, stress goes down. It’s much easier to give frequent feedback with reference. “Remember that expectation from the list? I think you can improve in it by doing this and that”. With frequent feedback…