Contemplations by Cohere

Building better teams and better products.

Oct 9, 2018

Designing a Directed Conversational Interview

In Thinking Fast and Slow, Dr. Daniel Kahneman introduces the concept of a fact-based, structured interview to mitigate the numerous cognitive biases that come into play when assessing an individual’s aptitude for leadership positions. This article…

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Mar 29, 2018

How to interview your future manager

We often get the chance to interview our future manager, but usually it’s while being evaluated for a new job. What do you do when you find yourself getting to interview your current manager’s replacement?

Know your priorities

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Jan 14, 2019

Level up by managing up: an engineer’s primer

A few months back, I shared a quick lightning talk at Fog City Ruby on managing…

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Jun 6, 2018

Evolving process for evolving teams

Process needs to breathe and shift and grow with the people that…

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Mar 30, 2018

Embracing Uncomfortable Refactoring

Sometimes refactoring is fun. Sometimes refactoring feels therapeutic.

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May 9, 2018

Interviewer Skills Part 2/??: How to create interview questions

This is Part 2 of a multi-part series covering some of the topics introduced in our RailsConf 2018 Interviewer Skills workshop.

Jennifer Tu in Cohere

Feb 14, 2019

Roses are red / This pairing is for you

It took me a long time to understand the joys of pair programming.

3 responses

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Jun 20, 2018

Interviewer Skills Part 3/3: Timing your interview

This is Part 3 of a multi-part series covering some of the topics introduced in our RailsConf 2018 Interviewer Skills workshop.

Part 1 covered how to know what would make a candidate the right addition to your team…

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Mar 27, 2018

A primer on setting up your remote employee

Last night, I was talking with a tech lead of a local company. He was struggling with supporting two of his teammates who are newer to their roles (let’s call them Alyssa and Ben). Alyssa, like nearly all her teammates, works in the local office, and is…