management Candidate-First Hiring Candidate-First Hiring is a philosophy that guides our hiring and interview processes based on our own experiences as candidates, interviewers, and hiring managers. It is a hiring process informed by an outlook that we believe is both stronger and kinder.
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
workplace Workplace Sabotage I recently stumbled across a declassified field manual first published by the Office of Strategic Services (the precursor to the CIA) in 1944. The manual describes simple methods that everyday citizens can use
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. Resumes are very difficult to do well, and unsurprisingly most resumes are not great (to put it politely)
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
management My Experience with Gallup's Strengths Finder Gallup's "Strengths Based" programs have made a mint for the company, and have become extremely popular at a lot of major companies - including mine, National Instruments. Generally, I really like
