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We had a chat with Tim Olshansky (Tim Olshansky, EVP of Product & Engineering at Zenput) about building a career ladder for your engineering team. Tim shared many great insights, and I wanted to highlight some key takeaways here.

1. Articulate your company values

It's essential for any important process or framework you want to implement. If you are clear on your values, you'll make consistent decisions.

2. Get backing from key stakeholders

Senior management certainly has to be on board, but it's best if your entire engineering department is clear on why creating a career ladder for them is necessary.

3. Start building it with only a few people

Early on, you want to start brainstorming ideas with the people who have the most insight into career development, your company's inner workings, and engineering. You want to put together a reasonable draft. 4. Gather feedback

Once you have at least a rough draft, involve a broader group of people from the company, and get their feedback. Expect to introduce a lot of changes to your first draft.

5. Implement feedback Basically, rinse and repeat points 3-4 until you're ready.

+1 Update it regularly

You may outgrow your career framework, so don't be afraid to update it systematically. Don't do it too often. You want to set concrete goals for your engineers!

You can find more insights in the blog post and podcast episode.

Diversity in recruiting is a hard issue to tackle, especially in the software industry.

To build an inclusive and diverse workplace, you need to create an inclusive recruitment process.

But the talent pool is usually limited, so how do you get started?

Why is it in your best interest to build a diverse workforce?

How do you balance diversity hiring with getting the best candidates?

What are realistic goals to set when it comes to diversity in recruiting in the tech world?

You get answers to all this and more from Ola Sitarska (Engineering Lead at Onfido). She went into great detail about her diversity recruitment strategies.

Here are some key points she made in the interview:

Creating a diverse team is in your best interest. Teams with individuals coming from diverse backgrounds deliver better results.

Diversity and inclusion isn't just about race or gender, but it also includes different personality types or career paths.

Diversity in recruitment doesn't stop you from hiring the best people. It enhances your ability and chances to hire the top talent out there.

Hi everyone,

We surveyed 278 professionals about serverless technology and adoption and I thought to highlight some of the results here.

Whats's covered in this report?

The first section of the report is focusing on adoption-related questions such as usage of serverless technologies, organizational experience, and more.

The second section covers the benefits and downsides of the technology as well as the most popular use cases and tools to get the most out of serverless technology.

The final part of this report highlights the key decision-makers when it comes to adopting serverless technology. We also wanted to hear the opinions of those who are not using serverless technology, to learn more about the reasons why they haven’t adopted it.

Here's a collection of several key findings based on the community's answers:

1. Currently AWS is the leading provider followed by Azure and Google Cloud.

2. The two biggest benefits of using serverless architecture are flexibility in scaling and speed of development.

3. Node.js is the most widespread programming language when it comes to serverless, with Python in second place.

4. The most common use case for serverless is rest APIs, and the second is data processing tasks.

5. The biggest challenge for developers working with serverless is debugging. By far. Architectural complexity is not even close in second place.

Hey everyone,

I was looking for a website that tracks the newest, hottest DeFi projects since it’s pretty time consuming to subscribe and read all the newsletters, follow influencers and blogs. The noise is just overwhelming.

I couldn’t find a tool that lists these fresh projects so I decided to build one.

This website currently lists a bunch of DeFi projects (the list is incomplete RN) and also highlights the new projects and the ones with an upcoming token sale (Dex offering).

The main value proposition here is to make new projects easily discoverable by visiting the website or subscribing to the newsletter.

The website is far from complete, but I wanted to show you guys and early version to get some feedback. What do you think? Is it sg that provides value to you? What’s missing?

Website: https://www.defirise.com/

Thanks in advance!

How do you create a company culture document that has a lasting positive impact? A culture document that truly aligns your team and not just another document? Here is one way to do it! Excerpt from our latest Level-up Engineering podcast interview.

#1 Take notes of your current values ️ Take note of things that are meaningful to your culture and set your organisation apart.

#2 Involve key people 🧑 🧑 Involve key leaders in your company, engineers. They have a valuable perspective, seeing your culture.

#3 Get an outside opinion Do you work with someone on a contract basis? Involve this person! She probably understands your culture, but not with your company every single day. This gives her an outside perspective.

This helps a lot since when you're inside your problems, sometimes you can't see the solution.

#4 Define it Do some soul-searching, and define the aspects of your existing culture. Put it into words, and write it down.

#5 Communicate it ️ The next step is to roll it out, and make everyone aware of it. We started out with one-on-one trainings, and I held some sessions for small groups myself.

#6 Lead by example The most important thing is to lead by example. For instance, if you have a “Don't be late” rule, the CEO and the management have to arrive a minute early to every meeting. Only then can you expect the developers to follow this as well.

#7 Hold people accountable In a performance review, we look at our objective key results for the company and for the individual. We look at performance, and how the employee is doing as far as our culture document goes. We expect our people to uphold the values of the company.

Hungry for more? Read or listen to the full post here: https://codingsans.com/blog/culture-document

App link: https://foodsdogscaneat.com/ PH profile: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/foods-dogs-can-eat

Hey HN,

I started learning to code and this is the first product I ever built.

PRODUCT

I’m a proud owner of two dogs and I want to make sure that I feed them with food that keep them healthy in the long-term.

When it comes to feeding our dogs human food, some typical questions arise: What kind of human foods can dogs eat? What foods are dangerous for dogs?

So I thought how cool would it be an app that tells you exactly that by simply typing in the food’s name.

I also wrote a long guide answering the most frequently asked questions regarding feeding dogs with human food.

The app checks mostly basic foods and the most popular human foods, not complex, prepared meals. :)

I’m so excited to share this early version with you guys, let me know what you think so I can make a better new version.

Hey HN,

This is the first product I built without coding (see the tools below).

I’m a big TV show fan, watching series almost every night instead of sleeping.

I got swamped this year and I couldn’t keep up with the premiere dates of my favorite TV shows. I got tired of randomly searching for premiere dates so I decided to build something that reminds me all the premiere dates I care about.

I built TvPremiereAlert which sends email reminders on the premiere days of your selected TV shows. The list of series and premiere dates are constantly updated (currently manually), making sure you never miss the premiere dates and you don’t have to spend precious time looking for this information.

I’m so excited to share this early version with you guys, let me know what you think so I can make a better new version. :)

Check out the tool here: https://www.tvpremierealert.com/ I wrote about the entire building process here: https://blog.iamtamas.com/tv-premiere-alert-a-tool-i-built-w...

Here are the tools I used: Unicorn platform (building website) https://unicornplatform.com/ Canva (design and images) https://www.canva.com/ Jotform (collecting emails and preferences) https://jotform.com Mailchimp (storing data and sending campaigns) https://mailchimp.com/ Netlify (hosting) https://www.netlify.com/