How to hire, fire and return from management to development: video from Badoo Techleads Meetup # 5

At the last meeting of the IT-leaders community, we set the speakers a difficult task - to speak not only about successes, but also about the problems of managers in IT. The result was an honest conversation about the situations that one would face each other: the selection of employees, layoffs, complex personnel changes.







Thanks to the speakers who frankly said that not everything works the first time and many decisions have two sides. And to guests who seem to be able to ask questions endlessly.



Video and presentation - under the cut. Enjoy watching!

Situation # 1: where are the candidates?

Anatoly Panov, Head of Verticals Cluster Development (Avito)



The report that sooner or later the team leader will have to plunge into the jungle of recruitment, and begin to deal with funnels, look for reasons for refusing offers and compete for candidates with neighboring teams. Anatoly went this way and shares the main steps that helped to establish the selection of developers and communication with HR.

Situation # 2: a good engineer, but not a manager

Denis Chernobay, Head of Frontend Development, Badoo



Not every good engineer becomes a good team lead. Sometimes we get it too late. In the report, I tell how, step by step, I tried to correct a similar situation: to return the engineer to a non-leadership position, while retaining the team. The main question is what have I lost and what have I gained?

Situation 3: How I Fired

Alexey Shagraev, Head of Development, Yandex.Search



Nobody likes to disappoint colleagues, and dismissing for many leaders is a real torment. In this report, Aleksey tries to prove the opposite with living examples: dismissal can be as useful for an employee as for a team.











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