Check out and get your ticket for Rails Remote Conf!
02:00 – Sarah Mei Introduction
06:11 – Why It’s Hard to be “The First Person”
- Biases
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?
24:46 – Setting Expectations Around Pairing Sessions
27:45 – Whisper Networks
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
50:43 – Empathy
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)
