intro
Your first ten engineers
The first ten hires are not employees, they are the constitution. Everything you tolerate in them becomes policy for the next hundred.
0-5 · 5-20
intro
One-on-ones are their meeting
The one-on-one is not where you get updates. It's where a person's growth, frustration, and confusion get a scheduled place to surface, and it only works if you talk for a fifth of it.
0-5 · 5-20 · 20-50 · 50-150 · 150+
core
Feedback while it still matters
Feedback only does its job while there's still time to act on it. Held past that point, the cost doesn't disappear. It lands on the person who finds out later than they should have.
0-5 · 5-20 · 20-50 · 50-150 · 150+