{"product_id":"9781484211335","title":"Building Great Software Engineering Teams: Recruiting, Hiring, and Managing Your Team from Startup to Success","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBuilding Great Software Engineering Teams\u003c\/em\u003e provides engineering leaders, startup founders, and CTOs concrete, industry-proven guidance and techniques for recruiting, hiring, and managing software engineers in a fast-paced, competitive environment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith so much at stake, the challenge of scaling up a team can be intimidating. Engineering leaders in growing companies of all sizes need to know how to find great candidates, create effective interviewing and hiring processes, bring out the best in people and their work, provide meaningful career development, learn to spot warning signs in their team, and manage their people for long-term success.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor Josh Tyler has spent nearly a decade building teams in high-growth startups, experimenting with every aspect of the task to see what works best. He draws on this experience to outline specific, detailed solutions augmented by instructive stories from his own experience. \u003c\/p\u003eIn this book you’ll learn how to build your team, starting with your first hire and continuing through the stages of development as you manage your team for growth and success. Organized to cover each step of the process in the order you’ll likely face them, and highlighted by stories of success and failure, it provides an easy-to-understand recipe for creating your high-powered engineering team.What you’ll learn\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEffective techniques for finding engineering candidates for your company, including how to make your company more attractive to prospective employees and tips for navigating the employment visa process\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to leverage commonly overlooked resources for finding employees, such as hiring from other geographic regions and how to approach college recruiting\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to successfully hire the best candidates, from first contact through making an offer and getting it accepted\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to manage engineers for optimum morale and performance, foster confidence throughout your organization, and promote career development for your team members\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat to expect as you build an engineering team: common challenges, growing pains, and solutions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to use team-building skills to propel your career as individual contributor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eWho this book is for\u003cp\u003eThe primary audience is engineering leaders, startup founders, CTOs, and others tasked with building an engineering team to fulfill their company’s mission. The secondary audience is any engineering manager or senior engineer interested in learning more about how to hire or manage engineers effectively.\u003c\/p\u003eTable of Contents\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Challenge of Building an Engineering Team from the Ground Up\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn Enlightened Approach to Recruiting\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSix Destructive Myths about Recruiting Software Engineers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEight Steps to Recruiting Success\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHiring Is Hard\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Myth of the Ninja Rockstar Developer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Hiring Decision Checklist\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMaking Interviews Fun for Your Team\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy We Don’t Allow Java in Job Interviews\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDo I Want to be a Manager?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Manager’s Most Important Deliverable\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTechnical vs Management Tracks: Helping Your People Grow\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTricks of the Trade for Engineering Managers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdvice to Give Engineers on Finding a Great Job and Growing in Their Careers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Apress","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47131536883952,"sku":"9781484211335","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781484211335_p0.jpg?v=1763632160","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781484211335","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}