Everything a Team Lead Must Know About Hiring and Firing
summary
Covers what a tech lead needs to know about hiring and firing developers, focusing on developer motivation (both immediate reasons to join a project and long-term career needs) and the inevitability of team turnover as projects and people evolve. Discusses anticipating when engineers will outgrow a project and planning for replacement and team transitions.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Team lead introduction
- 5:59Hiring and motivation
- 11:42What motivates programmers
- 17:41Tracking team mood
- 23:00Handling toxic employees
- 29:00When and how to fire
- 37:34Firing procedure
- 40:05Q&A
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