230 RR Hiring Diversely with Sarah Mei

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02:00 – Sarah Mei Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog
• Devmynd
• RailsBridge

06:11 – Why It’s Hard to be “The First Person”

• Biases
  • Mind the Gap – On the unconscious bias we all carry, and how it applies to hiring
  • Avdi Grimm: What it’s like to come back to a Ruby project after 6 months

13:27 – Transmitting Cultural Values

16:01 – What Companies Can Do

• Dev Team Diversity #Realtalk – On the unprecedented opportunity we have right now to diversify our small teams
• Everyone has something to learn; Everyone has something to teach (Mentoring)

22:35 – What do you look for in a person as a hiring company?

• Rubberducking

24:46 – Setting Expectations Around Pairing Sessions

• Pairing with Junior Developers – On making sure newer devs can be successful once they're hired

27:45 – Whisper Networks

• Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic: Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?

34:08 – Performance Review

• “How can we make you successful?”

42:15 – “I will help you find a better fit.”

• Investment and Risk

44:40 – Communication Culture

• Ask vs. Guess Culture

50:43 – Empathy

• How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Picks

troll-repellant (Coraline)
Avdi Grimm: An alternative to puts in Ruby (Coraline)
Alan C. Kay: The Early History of Smalltalk (Avdi)
RubyTapas (Avdi)
Rails Remote Conf (Chuck)
Loot Crate (Chuck)
Prints and Visual Communication (Sarah)
Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know About How Artists Work by Robert Austin (Sarah)

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