Apr 3The Learning LibraryHow 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…Engineering3 min read
Mar 6Preparing Your Direct Reports for Performance Review Season4 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…Performance Reviews5 min read
May 16, 2021Finding Your Next Job — a Friendly FrameworkI 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…Job Hunting1 min read
Jan 30, 2021What We Expect From Software Developers on Each LevelI 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. …Engineering Mangement5 min read
Jan 30, 2021How We Introduced Levels to Our Engineering Organisation without Losing People or Hurting Our ProductivityWhy 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…Management And Leadership6 min read
Aug 30, 2020Our Bike Trip in the Stockholm ArchipelagoThis was written by me and my spouse, Yoav Luft.Vacation9 min read
Dec 1, 2019All You Need is FrictionLeaders in tech companies, this post is for you. Two weeks ago we started a wonderful tradition: the weekly morning coffee for engineering managers in Stockholm. We are a forum of leaders in engineering who want to grow our skills and network. During the introduction round, one participant said that…Tech6 min read
Nov 18, 2019How to Create Performant React AppsHow not to render box #1 when we click on box #3? That was my goal in this exercise. I used styled components and React hooks on CodeSandBox. This is the code I started with: Here’s how to convince yourself that when you click on a box in this…React2 min read
Aug 4, 2019Our Hike In North SwedenLast week we were able to go on a beautiful five days hike in a very well organised, yet not too popular, nature reserve in northern Sweden. In this post we will describe the trails, preparations, and our experiences during the hike. All the photos in this posts were taken…Travel12 min read
Jul 29, 2019Designing Web Applications-Architectural ComponentsWhat are the main considerations one needs to think of when creating a web application? Why does the architecture in your company is the way it is? What are its non trivial parts? How to think about the “other end”? After working in 5 startups, mostly as a full stack…Web17 min read
