In 10 months, the Bright Machines SW Engineering team has grown from 3 to 105 amazing #brightpeople , and counting. How did we do it? Here's our 30 second blueprint: Make genuinely great offers. Be honest about the opportunity, and expectations of the role. Champion equality and diversity. Promote transparency. Provide a world-class engineering culture: free of politics, bureaucracy and red tape. Demonstrate proven leadership to help employees grow through positive affirmation, recognition and trust. Kill management toxicity, bullying and intimidation dead where it stands. For God's sake, get rid of the BS promo processes and stack ranking that cause so much stress and anxiety. Promote people when the time is right, without committees and 30 page promo documents. Show your folks that you are truly invested in their growth by your actions, not with polarizing, byzantine mechanisms. Listen to your employees instead of talking at them. Make sure they don't kill themselves at work. And tell them "thank you" every chance you get. Attracting and retaining great talent is not rocket science, it's actually very easy. It just takes acting from first principles and simply being human. Please steal this blueprint, and apply it to your company. Everyone wins. #dobetter #hiring #dayone …see more