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September 19, 2022

What Does Your Tech Salary Look Like? A Review of Salary Trends

When thinking about how your tech salary stacks up in this current hiring environment you’d consider factors like your job title, years of experience, and company size.  In this article we...

July 19, 2022

How to Become a Machine Learning Engineer

Hired & Exponent Partner for Engineering Career Advice Video Series Hired recently completed a video series with our partner Exponent, featuring three of our talented engineers: Nico...

December 18, 2019

How to Be an Ally At Work

In a world of increasing opportunity, economic mobility, and openness, companies are learning (many of them the hard way) that inclusivity and diversity are not only good for employees—but also for...

November 06, 2019

5 Ways Engineering Managers Can Facilitate Flow

As the manager of a software development team, you spend a lot of time looking for ways to get the most out of your developers. And like any human being, software developers are at their most...

November 01, 2019

Are You Ready to Be a Manager?

If you’ve been working your way up in your company—whether you’re at a small startup with less defined levels or a big corporate with more rigid structures—you might be curious to try your hand at...

October 21, 2019

How to Manage Stakeholder Feedback as a Product Manager

Most product managers find it challenging to balance internal stakeholder feedback with what customers are asking for. Throw in business and market requirements and you can understand why so many...

September 24, 2019

Actionable Tips for Dealing with Imposter Syndrome at Work

Imposter syndrome has become a bit of a buzzword in many tech and business circles—but it’s not without reason. The data shows that only a small minority of tech workers (of both genders!) remain...

July 26, 2019

4 Tips in Agile for Product Managers

Agile is not just a buzzword. Being agile is everything I do and live for as a PM. In this fast moving and uber-competitive industry, agility is how you stay ahead of market expectations and...

July 24, 2019

How to Tell an Employee They're Not Ready for a Promotion

Many of us know how tough it can be to miss out on a promotion—particularly when your colleagues are celebrating their own successes from a recent round of performance reviews. So when you manage a...

July 23, 2019

5 Behaviors That Are Toxic to Company Culture

Whether you’re a startup founder, an HR executive, or even a concerned employee trying to make your company’s culture better, you’ll know that there’s no one right answer to the question of how to...

July 22, 2019

Strategies to Nip Negative Office Gossip in the Bud

It’s inevitable that employees who spend the majority of their time together talk amongst themselves—and most of the time, that’s a good thing; building strong personal relationships can lead to...

July 11, 2019

5 Strategies to Motivate an Apathetic Team Member

If you lead a team, chances are you selected each of them—at least in part—because they seemed excited about the prospect of the role. For many people, this excitement wears off over time, but team...

June 10, 2019

How to Get Your Team Excited About Your Next Meeting

Poorly-run meetings can be the bane of employees’ existence at work—and particularly so if they’re on the technical side of things, as time spent in meetings means less time building new products....

May 21, 2019

Managing Up: The Essential Soft Skill for Success in a Rapid-Growth Company

Like it or not, many managers are under-trained and unprepared for the new role they find themselves in. The high urgency environment of rapid growth companies creates an atmosphere where it’s more...

May 06, 2019

How to Avoid Common Pitfalls in Agile

What is Agile? Agile is a philosophy for approaching software development that focuses on fast, iterative development cycles. The method is based on software delivery over documentation,...

May 02, 2019

Are Your Contractors Putting in Their Hours?

When a developer has code on their screen, how do you know they are putting in effective work? Or, more fundamentally, how do you know they are even working on your product? Managing a contractor’s...

May 02, 2019

How to Avoid Micromanaging and Become a Great Coach Instead

Congratulations! You’ve been selected to lead a team and you’re excited about the opportunity ahead. You should be! But you may have already realized that managing a group of people comes with new...

May 02, 2019

Preparing Your Software Team for Change

Change is one of the hardest things for humans to handle. We crave stability and fear the unknown. This is especially true when it comes to our livelihoods. But companies must always be adapting...

April 30, 2019

Managers: How to Deal with Setbacks as a Team

No matter how much goal-setting, mission-driving, motivating, and process implementation you do, your team will invariably find itself dealing with setbacks. Setbacks come in many forms....

April 30, 2019

Resolve Conflict at Work: A Step-by-Step Conversation Guide

Conflict can be a stressful experience, but it doesn’t need to be. A healthy resolution to a conflict is actually a way to bolster any type of relationship, personal or professional. It develops...

April 24, 2019

Interviewing for an Engineering Manager Role? 15 Questions You Should be Prepared to Answer

We break Engineering Manager interview questions down to work history, the open role, and behavioral situations Congratulations! You have an interview to become an engineering manager. That’s...

April 10, 2019

The One Commonly Overlooked Skill of a Great CTO

It’s no secret that finding good software engineers isn’t easy. But finding a good Chief Technology Officer, or CTO, is a whole new type of difficulty. As a person in an executive-level position who...

February 22, 2019

Effective Delegation Strategies for Product Managers

Everyone knows that relentless focus and prioritization are table stakes in managing a product to success. But as the product grows, and the list of priorities grows with it, it can become...

February 20, 2019

5 Tips for Managing Cross-Functional Software Teams

Cross-functional teams consist of people from different functional roles who operate to deliver a certain project or meet a specific goal. A team may, for example, consist of a product manager,...