workplace Engineering Mantras Like everyone else, I have a list of favorite quotes that have influenced me or that I have found especially compelling. In the technical world, these sometimes become mantras, guidance, or even best
hiring Update on Hiring: It's Still Hard In early 2015, we decided to revamp the Ettus Research R&D hiring process. We had a lot of candidates coming through the pipeline, all the way through an on-site interview, that
management A Keystone of Success I've recently found myself discussing what it means to be an experienced or senior engineer with a number of different groups. What's interesting about those two terms is that I don't think they
software The Benefits of Upstream Compatibility and Upstreaming So you've read the loads of articles about why Open Source Software (OSS) is good for business. Perhaps you've also read Tom Preston-Werner's superb article about why your company should open source as
management Halt and Goto Meeting As a company grows, protecting the time of its employees becomes a perplexing problem. Bizarrely, almost everyone I know that isn't at a start-up doesn't seem to have enough time at work to
hiring Hiring is Hard The tech sector's hiring process has become something of a hot topic in the last few years. For the most part, everyone seems to agree that the current methods of technical hiring are
writing Land that Interview: Creating an Awesome R&D Resume I read a lot of resumes as the R&D manager for Ettus Research. After several years of staring at job applications, my biggest take-away is that most engineers are terrible at
engineering You Can't Skirt Compensation for the Best With a booming tech market and rapidly growing salaries for the best tech talent, I have seen a lot of discussion around the topics of employee hiring, retention, and compensation. Specifically, a lot
tools Using the GitHub Issue Tracker for Large Projects Within the last year, our engineering team transitioned from using Redmine for all of our issue tracking to using the GitHub Issue Tracking system. We had previously moved all of our repository hosting
engineering The Search for a Digital Lab Notebook This post details my search for a digital lab notebook to replace my current system of "analog" notebooks, and why I don't think there is a good solution for this, yet.
