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Hiring and Onboarding Talented Engineers Is a Leadership Responsibility

Send us Fan MailIn this episode of The Agile Engineering Deep Dive, Alessandro Guida explores why hiring should be treated as a long-term leadership investment rather than a short-term operational task.Many organizations focus on speed, cost, and visible output when hiring engineers. But these signals often hide the real risks: poor role definition, mismatched expectations, underinvestment in onboarding, and decisions that optimize for the next quarter rather than the next decade.This episode reflects on how different problems require different hiring strategies, why the number of applicants…

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