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Engineering Teams Are Just Networks

 
Marianne Bellotti
 

Marianne Bellotti

 

Just now*7 min read

To be a great hiring manager don't be distracted by rockstar
engineers, study up on network theory.

As a manager I like to build teams out of spare parts. I hire
candidates who are rejected from other pipelines, I pick up people
with middling performance in other teams, sometimes I even hire
people whose skills are weak or out of date. My proudest
accomplishments all involve teams constructed in such a manner
completely out performing best-of-the-best rockstar teams assembled
elsewhere. I've often struggled to explain how I tell the difference
between a diamond in the...