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Topic: From 0 to 100 - Everything You Need To Know About Scaling Your Team (and
Shweta Saraf
Whether you're adding one person or one hundred people to your team - scaling isn't easy. Shweta Saraf, Director of Engineering at DigitalOcean, has been an integral part of scaling both small and large organizations while investing in each individuals career success. Join this hour-long live...
Whether you're adding one person or one hundred people to your team - scaling isn't easy. Shweta Saraf, Director of Engineering at DigitalOcean, has been an integral part of scaling both small and large organizations while investing in each individuals career success. Join this hour-long live Q&A to learn Shweta's tips for hiring, training and nurturing new team members while maintaining the culture your organization needs to thrive.
Meet The Speaker
Shweta Saraf
Director of Engineering at DigitalOcean
I am passionate about People and Technology. I have 12+ years of experience in building world-class high performing teams and promoting a culture of openness, innovation and happiness with laser focus on product innovation , execution and delivery.
Specialities: SDN, Cloud, SaaS, Technical Leadership, Team Development, Product Innovation,Indoor Location Services, Wireless Networks, Wireless Security, L4-L7 technlogies, WAN optimization, STEM, Agile Methodologies
Shweta Saraf is an Engineering Leader who is passionate about People and Technology. Currently she is the Head of Cloud Networking at DigitalOcean where she grew her team from 3 to ~35 in less than 3 years. Shweta enjoys working in high growth, bleeding edge technologies and startups and has previously scaled teams from 0-100 multiple times. Shweta loves bringing open, diverse and inclusive culture to her teams and supporting STEM and was founder of Women in Science and Engineering at Cisco. She was recognized by YMCA, Silicon Valley in 2015 as Emerging Leader and also currently sits on Forbes Technology Council.
Q&A
Q&A guidelines-
Interviewing and Hiring takes lot of time and effort , how do you balance your team's time between that and the regular work.
Posted on 2019-09-10 -
Do you have techniques for supporting junior engineers in a high growth, rapidly changing environment?
Posted on 2019-09-09 -
In a niche field where it is hard to find talent, how can it scale if getting new employees is difficult.
Posted on 2019-09-09 -
How do you scale form 5 - 20 people > What is the process you follow?
Posted on 2019-09-09 -
How do you choose what positions hire first?
Posted on 2019-09-09 -
Who do you partner with to hire? What interviewing questions do you find most telling? How do you know the candidate is a good fit?
Posted on 2019-09-09 -
When scaling your team from 3 to 35, how did your source candidates? And what % of hires came from referrals, recruiters, reached out to you cold, applied via application? Thank you!
Posted on 2019-09-09 -
How can I ensure expertise and best practices are shared with new team members?
Posted on 2019-09-08 -
How to train existing team members to help with on boarding as you scale? How to embed a culture of responsibility and ownership?
Posted on 2019-09-08 -
How to repair a team that did not start out nurturing new members and is now facing morale issues?
Posted on 2019-09-05
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