{"id":2358,"date":"2019-12-27T12:55:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T12:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ejobsitesoftware.com\/blog\/?p=2358"},"modified":"2019-12-27T12:55:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T12:55:38","slug":"how-to-build-a-great-software-engineering-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ejobsitesoftware.com\/blog\/how-to-build-a-great-software-engineering-team\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Build a Great Software Engineering Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by Madeline Hester<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHiring the wrong person is a very costly mistake,\u201d said Francis Sullivan, CTO of ScaleFactor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He\u2019s not wrong. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, a bad hire costs a company about 30 percent of the employee&#8217;s first year earnings. As a software engineering manager, this means it\u2019s important to understand what qualities you want your team&#8217;s culture to embody before interviewing a candidate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When building his own engineering team, Sullivan said it&#8217;s great to look for top-tier technical skills, but if personalities don\u2019t align, nothing is going to get developed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read More:<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.builtinaustin.com\/2019\/12\/18\/build-great-software-engineering-team\">https:\/\/www.builtinaustin.com\/2019\/12\/18\/build-great-software-engineering-team<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Madeline Hester \u201cHiring the wrong person is a very costly mistake,\u201d said Francis Sullivan, CTO of ScaleFactor. He\u2019s not wrong. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, a bad hire costs a company about 30 percent of the employee&#8217;s first year earnings. 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