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GitLab's Compensation CalculatorGitLab's not only provides a compensation calculator, but explains how each of the components work: • SF Benchmark • Location factor • Level Factor • Compa Ratio
Finding a company with an inclusive engineering cultureThis article is written from the perspective of an outside job applicant and provides a useful checklist, which can also be used internally to help predict how your D&I efforts will be perceived.
The Manager's Handbook: OnboardingAlex covers: • Creating a 30/60/90 day plan • Operating an academy for new hires • Scheduling the first day, week, 30 days
Having Career ConversationsJoe explains how there are 2 desired outcomes from a career planning conversations: 1) Clear Goal(s) 2) An understanding of the motivations that underlie the goal(s) He then provides a concrete list of suggestions on how to juggle the cultural and organizational dynamics of providing career advice.
Open-sourcing the Nylas Employee HandbookTasia describes the process that went into building the employee handbook at Nylas, along with highlights from a few different sections including: • Remote work • Terminology • PTO • Caretaker leave policy • Employee education benefit program
BetterCloud’s Slow, Steady & Ongoing D&I JourneyDavid describes a 2-year diversity and inclusion journey, across both its successes and challenges. He covers: • How did the journey start? • Accountability and Sustainability • Power in Numbers • Top of the (recruiting) funnel • Are we there yet? Not even close… • D&I 2.0
Supporting engineers' daily work and career developmentSherry covers multiple ways to foster career development, including: • Surveying Engineers About Tooling • Striving for Being in the ‘Flow Zone’ • Cultivating Collaboration • Holding Retrospectives for Your 1:1s • Regularly Reviewing Career Ladders with Engineers She also covers a few things to avoid: • Conducting surveys then ignoring the feedback you receive • Treating career ladders as checklists for promotion
PostHog's Employee HandbookPostHog has a medium-sized employee handbook. It covers 73 topics across Company, How We Work, People, Engineering, Design, and Sales & Marketing and more. PostHog uses Gatsby to generate it.
Mattermost Employee HandbookMattermost's employee handbook covers 466 topics and is hosted on GitBook.
Sourcegraph's Employee HandbookSourcegraph's employee handbook covers 903 topics and is hosted on GitHub.