230 RR Hiring Diversely with Sarah Mei

Check out and get your ticket for Rails Remote Conf! 02:00 - Sarah Mei Introduction

• Twitter 
• GitHub 
• Blog
• Devmynd
• RailsBridge

06:11 - Why It’s Hard to be “The First Person”

• Biases
  • Mind the Gap - On the unconscious bias we all carry, and how it applies to hiring
  • Avdi Grimm: What it’s like to come back to a Ruby project after 6 months 

13:27 - Transmitting Cultural Values16:01 - What Companies Can Do

• Dev Team Diversity #Realtalk - On the unprecedented opportunity we have right now to diversify our small teams
• Everyone has something to learn; Everyone has something to teach (Mentoring)

22:35 - What do you look for in a person as a hiring company?

• Rubberducking

24:46 - Setting Expectations Around Pairing Sessions

• Pairing with Junior Developers - On making sure newer devs can be successful once they're hired

27:45 - Whisper Networks

• Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic: Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? 

34:08 - Performance Review

• “How can we make you successful?”

42:15 - “I will help you find a better fit.”

• Investment and Risk

44:40 - Communication Culture

• Ask vs. Guess Culture 

50:43 - Empathy

• How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Picks troll-repellant (Coraline)
Avdi Grimm: An alternative to `puts` in Ruby (Coraline)
Alan C. Kay: The Early History of Smalltalk (Avdi)
RubyTapas (Avdi)
Rails Remote Conf (Chuck)
Loot Crate (Chuck)
Prints and Visual Communication (Sarah)