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276 RR Hiring and Retention with Kenzi Connor


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1:15 - Introducing Kenzi Connor

  • Cloud City
  • Cloud City Twitter
  • Kenzi Connor’s Twitter
  • 4:15 - Senior developer vs Junior developer: Sustainability and hiring

    8:25 -  Examining the “senior-obsessed field”

    10:00 - Importance of sustainability

    12:35 - Lottery-ticket thinking

    13:35 - Solutions to the junior vs senior dilemma

    21:10 - Diversity and productivity

    23:50 - Effective management strategies

    31:00 - Strategies for going from a high-conformity company to a more diverse company

    • Marco Rogers Twitter Feed
    • Harvard study - gender discrimination in the hiring process
    • 36:05 - Why junior developers leave your company

      • Dead Sea Effect
      • Picks:

        Mandy Moore (Sam)

        Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World by Caroline Yoachim (Jessica)

        Foreign exchange students (Charles)

        Octavia Butler (Kenzi)

        Black Girls Code  (Kenzi)

         
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