One of the interesting and not very often covered issues of IT management is the expansion of the engineering team and the mistakes that can be made along the way. I myself am actively developing my projects and therefore am interested in this topic. I managed to speak with Alina Zurabova, Head of Engineering and Testing at Smartcat. This startup with Russian roots, which develops a translation management platform and raised more than $ 14 million. Accordingly, its technical team has grown significantly over the past couple of years.
We talked about what difficulties arose along the way, what right and wrong moves were made, and how, as a result, the processes changed from finding developers to implementing them into the team. Below is a summary of the main thoughts from this conversation.
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