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Tripling an Engineering Team in Six Months - Part Four: Hiring (finally!)
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In part four of this five part series on lessons learned from tripling an engineering team we finally reach the actual hiring! In this article I cover lessons learned, how we tracked our recruitment process, and how we implemented flexibililty in our approach to hiring.

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Tripling an Engineering Team in Six Months - Part Three: Setting up for Success
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In 2016, after being acquired by private investors, we were given the green light to triple our engineering team as fast as possible. In this article (part 3 of a 5 part series) I focus on all the preparations required before starting to hire.

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Tripling an Engineering Team in Six Months - Part Two: Planning to Scale
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In 2016, after being acquired by private investors, we were given the green light to triple our engineering team as fast as possible. In this article (part 2 of a 5 part series) I dive deeper on how we actually planned the massive task we were embarking upon, the questions we needed to ask, and the important lessons we learned about planning to scale.

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Tripling an Engineering Team in Six Months - Part One: The Background Story
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In November 2016 the company I worked for was acquired, injected with cash, and told to 'go faster'. Over the next six months I led a recruitment drive that saw the engineering team (more than) triple. This is a 5-part blog series on that massive recruitment process; starting with the background story that led us to need to scale at such a pace.
 

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Value First, Price Second: How to make good decisions in life (and software development)
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When making decisions, jumping to the price as the first mechanism for comparison is a common mistake we all make. Everybody has done it at some point already and I am willing to bet most people resort to price as their default assessment most of the time. I know I do.

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