Tech Lead Handbook
  • 👋Introduction
  • People
    • Space for Growth
    • One on Ones
    • Manage Conflicts
    • Deal with Passive Aggressive
    • Give Feedback
    • Performance Management
    • Manage Up
    • Talent Matrix
  • Engineering
    • Pair Programming
    • DCI Framework
    • Code Ownership
    • ADR
  • Leadership
    • Leadership Competencies
    • The Communication Pyramid
    • Anti Patterns
  • Prioritisation
    • Types of Decisions
    • Pros and Cons
    • Decision Matrix
  • Hiring
    • Hiring Process
    • Prepare a Hiring
    • Position Description
    • Shortlisting
    • Case Study
  • Product
    • Working with Product Managers
    • Assumptions Mapping
    • Decision Making
    • Practice vs Process
    • Nemawashi
    • OKRs
    • Consensus vs Consent
  • Project
    • The Triple Constraint
  • Strategy
    • Tech Strategy
  • Communication
    • Use Positive Language
  • Shortlist
  • ...
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  • The What
  • The How
  • Must have
  • Good to have
  • Red Flags
  • Exceptions
  • Tips
  • 🕳 Pitfalls
  1. Hiring

Shortlisting

During the hiring, review CVs and decide who should be progressed to the next step

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The What

Identify the candidates from the applicant pool you want to progress. Aka. CV screening. The Talent Acquisition (TA) team or Agency might help you with this.

The How

Must have

  • Hard skills — programming, microservices, data modelling, front end, backend, architecture, system design, problem-solving, strategic thinking

  • Working experiences: working years? projects? teams? programming languages? company types, corporate or product & tech, operational or creative, maintenance or development, consultant or own a product?

  • Project experiences: languages, platforms, tech stack, frameworks, etc

Good to have

It depends, some candidates care about their personal branding, and they might put more effort into open-source communities, personal blogs, etc. It is a good sign for good candidates but not required.

  • Curious about tech, follow up newsletters, attend meetups or conference

  • Side projects — crafting code

  • Creations: blogs, videos

  • Certificates: AWS, GCP, etc

  • Short courses or free YouTube videos

  • Many silly typos

  • Simple formatting issue

  • CV looks like an essay

  • Full of soft skills — lack of hard skills

Some candidates may not tick all the boxes you would like to tick, however, you may still be willing to consider them

  • High potentials: junior to what you are looking for, but willing to learn and learn fast.

  • High motivations

  • Does homework and well prepared

  • Make it part of your daily routine, 30 min a day and make it part of your life

  • Balance high potential and aligned tech stack

  • Leverage Agency or TA team

🕳 Pitfalls

  • High experience ≠ high performance

  • 1-year experience repeats 10 times ≠ 10 years experience

Red Flags

Exceptions

Tips

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