Author Archives: Brett Henderson

Give Graduates a Chance

Ephox has a long history of association with graduates (we were founded by a graduate) and so a significant number of our engineers have been graduates. It has only been recently that we have hired experienced engineers (mostly at the senior level) and found it very difficult to get good candidates. As the engineering manager I'm of course interested in how we build up our resources and this is a troubling development as I try to grow the team.

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Hamstaaa!!

I couldn't have a blog and not post something about the Hamster especially as its the name of the blog.

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What’s it all about

Like most engineers I thought management was the "dark side" but was something that, as your career progressed, couldn't be avoided. After 13 years of development and technical consulting, I was offered the opportunity to see what it was like in management, while still requiring me to maintain my technical skills at an architectural level.

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