276 RR Hiring and Retention with Kenzi Connor

1:15 - Introducing Kenzi Connor

• Cloud City
• Cloud City Twitter
• Kenzi Connor’s Twitter
• Email: kenzi@cloudcity.io

4:15 - Senior developer vs Junior developer: Sustainability and hiring8:25 -  Examining the “senior-obsessed field”10:00 - Importance of sustainability12:35 - Lottery-ticket thinking13:35 - Solutions to the junior vs senior dilemma21:10 - Diversity and productivity23:50 - Effective management strategies31:00 - Strategies for going from a high-conformity company to a more diverse company

• Marco Rogers Twitter Feed
• Harvard study - gender discrimination in the hiring process

36:05 - Why junior developers leave your company

• Dead Sea Effect

Picks: Mandy Moore (Sam) Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World by Caroline Yoachim (Jessica)Foreign exchange students (Charles) Octavia Butler (Kenzi) Black Girls Code (Kenzi) Special Guest: Kenzi Connor.

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