Comments on: Recruiting Startup Engineers

By: Poornima

Poornima — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:28:47 +0000

Growing up as a femgineer in a mengineer’s world I’ve mostly worked on all male teams. Although in college my teams were more balanced and we still got a ton done and had fun. And I think the skew is mostly because of the numbers, hopefully I can play a small part in helping to change that. But regardless of what your team composition or whether you’re in a startup or not, treating people fairly and respectfully is the only way to build a happy and productive team long term. I think too many people get caught up in being results oriented and I’ve definitely suffered from this syndrome in the past couple months. Fortunately I have good mentors and a team that keeps me in check!

By: Jin

Jin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:31:00 +0000

Nice post. It’s good to hear what people care about, to better think of ways to take good care of them. Also, it’s always good to hear female opinions on issues like this. Maybe I’m not looking hard enough but there seems to be a skew toward male stories in the engineering / startup world.

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Retaining Startup Engineers | Femgineer — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 04:29:15 +0000

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By: Poornima

Poornima — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:59:49 +0000

Always good to brainstorm with people from all walks of life. I find that helps a lot. Even if you have a team you have to go outside of the building and talk to new people to make headway on your ideas.

By: JR

JR — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:53:22 +0000

Very interesting post. I couldn’t sleep this last night b/c of an idea I kept developing in my head, but without any programming experience, I am pretty much going nowhere! Hopefully I’ll be able to effectively recruit some engineers!