Engineering Culture
Run a premortem before the launch celebration
A confident plan can contain fragile assumptions.
Sep 30, 2026
3 min read
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What separates good engineers from great ones, and how to build a team that keeps getting better.
A confident plan can contain fragile assumptions.
An engineer can deliver difficult work and still make the surrounding team less effective.
A launch announcement can make a complex team effort sound like one person's achievement.
Our imaginary top performer presses a key all day, never asks for a break, and produces no useful software.
Big companies aren't slow because they're scared of AI. They're slow because a bad change touches millions of users, a regulator, or a system that's been running for fifteen years. Here's what careful AI development actually looks like.
A bad engineering hire doesn't just waste a salary. It costs 6 months of team productivity, damages morale, and sets the project back further than having no hire at all.
Most staffing companies send you a resume and a coding test score. We evaluate five dimensions that actually predict whether an engineer will succeed on your team.
Most companies obsess over whether someone knows React 18 or can invert a binary tree. Six months later, they let that person go because they can't communicate. This pattern is fixable.
Years of experience don't make someone senior. The title gets handed out too freely, and it costs companies a lot when it does. Here's what actually separates a senior developer from someone who's just been around longer.
A bad hire in a senior tech role can cost six figures. A slow process delays projects and burns your team's time. Neither is inevitable. Here's how to build a hiring process that makes better decisions in less time.
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