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Christian McCarrick Do you mean raw potential, career potential or salary potential? My first piece of advice is to try to find the right company to work for, with the right team and the right manager/mentor. This is more important (especially early in your career) than salary. Watch other senior engineers / architects and study […]
A quote that applies just as much to leadership.
Christian McCarrick The answer would generally be the same for why any person would leave their home – A better opportunity. If you are truly a top-notch software developer and you want a job working closely with other top software developers at a top company then you might want to move. In some cases you […]
Everyone complains about how hard it is to find and hire great engineering talent yet almost no one spends the time required to build out an exceptional and efficient hiring & interviewing process. To clarify, the HR / Recruiter portion is usually pretty good, but once it gets into the engineering hiring manager and team […]
As you know finding good talent is incredibly hard. Using recruiters should be an important part of your talent sourcing strategy. Having worked with many recruiting companies over the years, I have a few pointers to that will help optimize your relationship: #1. Create a hiring plan This is an absolute must! Before you can […]
Christian McCarrick Machine Learning is also used in more Qualitative ways. At AltX we were using machine learning to not only identify what news, blog and regulatory documents where relevant to specific Hedge Funds, but also to pull actionable information from those sources in near real-time. The ability to identify specific named entities from those […]
Christian McCarrick Pros: Feeling that anything is possible Striving for excellence Insatiable curiosity Never settling / accepting the status quo Desire to always improve & learn more Great conversations More liberal world-view (generalization being made here) Incredible loyalty if you earn trust Building things from scratch that really can change the world Cons: "Brogramer" The […]