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We have expressed time after time that our approach to product delivery is all about splitting the big tasks into smaller features and ship value continuously. Likewise, we are always fighting against the feeling that the code that is just about to be deployed must be improved a bit more before reaching our community. I'm […]

Another week under our belts. While we work to close the i18n initiative, we are defining the style and intend of our users' public profiles and looking to solve the synchronization with other job platforms, like LinkedIn. But, more importantly, this week we are giving more power to users by launching a red button to […]

No two selection processes are the same. They can be quite different depending on the industry and the size of the company. However at Manfred, we know first-hand that the recruitment and selection process in the Tech world have certain characteristics that make it different: conditioned by the high demand for technical talent, compared to the […]

Last week, I wrote about how we needed to take care of some voids we left when we launched SOFRED. The biggest one was the hurried internationalization of the platform, as we switched our static content to English in order to welcome our international users, but we did it without the proper multilingual adaptations. This […]

During the last months, we have welcomed international users into our platform. While, we keep launching features, improving our technologies and solving problems for our long-term users. We have realized that, as we keep helping our most-known users, there are new ones with different needs and wants. And they do not come with easy problems, […]

It is great to see that a lot of technology companies offer developers more than just one way to grow their careers. Not every engineer wants to be a people manager as their next step. In most organizations, those developers can stay on the individual contributor path. But when engineers grow beyond the senior developer […]

April has been a month when the Product team has cleaned the urgent stuff in order to have some room to think medium term. We want to strike the perfect balance between our compromise of delivering value weekly and not solving urgent tasks before the important ones, not always at least. Reality is that we […]

At Manfred we find it hard to believe in the traditional CV. A format that lists past experiences, technologies, acronyms, competencies… That focuses on what you are and says little or nothing about what you want to be: your aspirations, objectives, and concerns. Perhaps traditional recruitment was looking for just that: to review what you […]

We share our milestone numbers and objectives in our April 2022 War Report, as well as the learnings and advice we have collected. We hope they will be useful in providing lessons for others who are in similar situations to ours or can benefit from their publication. Building in public is not easy, but we […]

Since economics was first studied hundreds of years ago, the functioning of markets has been based on the formulation of the law of demand and supply. Its principles say that when a good becomes scarce, the market will be willing to pay more for it. But we are not here today to give an economics […]