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📣 stuckinhell

Developer Training Tools Recommendations


So apparently the economic downturn is worse than I thought, my company is planning to lay off 10-15% of our engineering team. This is mostly going to be junior developers or very under-performing mid-tier developers.

I've been asked to co-lead a task-force to start studying how to increase the efficiency of developers at the organization given my team is one of the highest performing results oriented teams.

To be honest, I'm at loss here. I don't think my team's methods will generalize because they are all self-driven and compensated with bonuses. I just need to keep people out of their way, make sure teamwork is good, and keep people out of their way.

However people's jobs are on the line, and management want to see increases in efficiency or else. So I'm reaching out to hackernews.

Are their any recommended note taking systems, learning tools that are software engineering focused not algorithmic or theory focused. More about the daily life of dealing with requirements, managing your energy/drive, working with BA's, etc ?

  👤 clowen Accepted Answer ✓
This should also be a good time to review all of your meetings.

One of the biggest delineations between engineering levels is the amount of autonomy afforded.

With no juniors, there should be less time needed for team meetings.

👤 clowen
Take a look at GitHub's Copilot. I used the technical preview and if you're already paying for gh it may be included. It actually helped keep me more focused on the solving aspects then the, what is the correct spelling, format, etc.