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Engineering Mantras
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

  • Ben Hilburn
    Ben Hilburn
3 min read
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

  • Ben Hilburn
    Ben Hilburn
4 min read
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

  • Ben Hilburn
    Ben Hilburn
2 min read
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

  • Ben Hilburn
    Ben Hilburn
4 min read
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

  • Ben Hilburn
    Ben Hilburn
5 min read
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

  • Ben Hilburn
    Ben Hilburn
5 min read
writing

Land that Interview: Creating an Awesome R&D Resume

I read a lot of resumes as the R&D manager for Ettus Research. Resumes are very difficult to do well, and unsurprisingly most resumes are not great (to put it politely)

  • Ben Hilburn
    Ben Hilburn
16 min read
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

  • Ben Hilburn
    Ben Hilburn
1 min read
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

  • Ben Hilburn
    Ben Hilburn
3 min read
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.

  • Ben Hilburn
    Ben Hilburn
5 min read
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