Slides for my talk about how geeks find jobs and what employers should do to get/keep geeks working for them productively. Slides may be shared or reused.

1. Geek Management
@tilentravnik
Please use #geekmanagement in your tweets.

2. WTF?

3. Tilen
dad
husband
food scientist
fireworks technician
project manager
whiteboard installer
product owner
geek

4. "Geek" is a badge of honor.
Eric Schmidt

5. What will I be talking
about?

6. Geeks finding good jobs,
jobs finding/keeping geeks
&
a cool case.

7. Looking for work?

8. You are in luck, they have
the harder job!

9. A good Linkedin profile is a huge bonus.
Being on Twitter or Google+ does not
hurt.

10. Google their financial data.
They may be sinking about.

11. Do they blog about
technical stuff or projects?

12. Do they do stuff in an
agile fashion?

13. Look for signs of great
company culture.

14. Ask to spend a day with
the team.

15. Look for established
coaching routines.

16. Bonus schemes? Really?

17. Ask them about their
Google time.
What are the latest
inventions?

18. Ask how many were
present at the last
all-nighter.
There was one for sure!

19. Stop being a brilliant jerk!

20. Looking for Geeks?

21. Geeks are regular employees ... they
just figure our fishy stuff sooner.
So clean up!

22. Hire slow, fire fast.
Netflix HR strategy

23. Make hiring a priority, like
at Facebook.

24. Ask the geek to spend a
day with your team.

25. Define the Employee Value
Package

26. The latest gadgets are a
must. Provide them even if
you can not afford them.

27. A compelling EVP
Your
organisation + The job
+ Compensation
+ Culture /
Enviroment
Brand Product Price Experience
= work / life ballance
Slide by Ivica Vrancic

28. Try to keep interestingness
evenly distributed.
Agile may help with that.

29. Fire brilliant jerks!

30. Case study: @github
presented by @chacon.

31. One product, profitable.

32. Maslow -- they get this
guy.

33. Cool tools.
Coolest ones built
internally.

34. Rules?

35. no office hours
no meetings
no vacations
no assignments
no bosses

36. More?
go to https://github.com/
schacon/fowa-talk

37. Thanks!