Thinking Architecturally in the Day-to-Day
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We all know the reality of engineering work. Deadlines loom, features need to ship, critical bugs demand immediate attention. In…
Unlock your potential by cultivating a high sense of agency
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Someone with a high sense of agency favors initiative over perfect skills. Learn what makes a great engineering candidate and how we unlock their potential.
Onboarding: We learn through challenges, not presentations
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Learning by osmosis doesn’t work 一, especially at a startup. So BetterUp onboards new engineers with a semi-structured, challenge-based onboarding process.
Design to product management: a rewarding journey.
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Changing careers after spending a decade climbing the corporate ladder was terrifying. I hope my story can inspire others who want to make a change but are petrified of the consequences. I’m here to tell you it is worth it.
Star signs: Celestial navigation for product & engineering teams.
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What do “North Star Metrics” and “KPIs” actually mean? The answers lie in the stars. Learn how BetterUp’s analytics team uses celestial navigation to drive product outcomes.
It is never too late to find purposeful work
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A few years ago, I never would’ve predicted that every line of code I write would impact someone’s life. But at BetterUp, I’m doing just that.
My Journey of Inner Work
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Engineering manager, Bryan Hickerson, shares how his walk across The Camino taught him the importance of Inner Work as fuel for personal and professional growth.
Five tenets of extreme ownership on BetterUp's engineering team
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Extreme ownership can be a hard mindset to adopt at first, but it boils down to how you behave day-to-day. This article outlines the five tenets we abide by and how we overcome challenges to deliver an excellent customer experience.
Tracking a process's memory usage in Ruby
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The amount of memory an application consumes is fundamental to investigating
memory bloating. The quest to come up with that…
Adding Sidekiq Job Context to ActiveRecord Query Log Tags
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Anyone that has worked with Rails for any significant amount of time probably
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Is parity with web the best mobile strategy?
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Since the launch of the iOS App Store in 2008, tech companies have worked to
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Weak Supervision: How we labeled and trained a model on half a million datapoints in 48 Hours
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Behind every good ML model, there is a good dataset. This shouldn’t come as a
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