In this episode, Karim Fanous, VP Engineering @ strongDM, talks about the impacts on an engineering team's productivity.
Key Takeaways:
Impacts on productivity for the team
Context switching between interviewing and development
Importance of Having a repeatable and objective process
Challenges in onbarding process for newly hired engineers.
Understanding the people retention process.
___About today’s guest: Karim Fanous
https://www.linkedin.com/in/karimfan/
Link to article: https://karimfanous.substack.com/p/scaling-an-engineering-team-will
Karim is the VP of Engineering at strongDM. Before that, he was in similar roles at startups like Qumulo and Dremio. Karim also spent 10 years at Microsoft.
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