What I have Learned from Hiring Hundreds of Engineers

What's it like to hire hundreds of engineers? In this event, we will discuss learnings that will help you in your role.

This talk is targeted towards both hiring managers and job seekers.

You will learn:

• About real experiences with hiring hundreds of technologists
• What makes a great hire
• Aptitude vs. Attitude
• Building successful teams
• The role diversity plays in a successful team
• Resume and career insights
• How job seekers can get experience they don't have
• How can they build a reputation and a community

Schedule:
6:00PM - 6:30PM: Settling in and Networking
6:30PM - 8:30PM: Talk
8:30PM - 9:30PM: Q&A and Networking

Our Speaker:
Teresa Dietrich is the Global Head of Product & Engineering at McKinsey New Ventures. She focuses on building a Product Accelerator within McKinsey to partner with internal entrepreneurs with identified business opportunities to create solutions with deep value, high quality, and superior usability to deepen and extend our client impact. She leads Product Development teams in Chicago, New York and Prague, to build products with top notch agile teams. The team also cultivates reusable Platform components including infrastructure, tools, shared services and a full design language and system to expedite new product development and enhance security and functionality of common components. She is passionate building a community of engineers, product managers, designers, analysts, architects and other technologists with New Ventures to share knowledge and challenges, attract and develop top talent and build best practices throughout the firm.

Previously, she was CTO at Namely and Senior VP of Technology Operations and Security and Chief Security Officer at WebMD.
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