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Paola Santiago's avatar

This is such a useful guide especially for those who have just been promoted to director or even senior management level. Increasing the team headcount is tricky, there's always a concern for culture changes but also whether it's a good investment. Bigger companies are often more apt to use this article too because they have more processes to make sure they can onboard new team members. For startup, it's a bit of a toss up as most of them often decide on ad hoc so I actually think they're more for the political momentum phase.

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Fred de Villamil's avatar

Thank you for sharing this. I 100% agree, and it's even better when increasing your headcount is market driven, not customer driven.

Your intro about people reminds me one critical thing I learned the hard way : when you add one person to a team, you get a new, completely different team.

Having grown my engineering teams by up to 10x in less than 2 years, I found it the most challenging.

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