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Also See

While this subject is distinct, it’s deeply related to the following other areas:

• Recruiting & Hiring
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Resources

Articles & Shorter Reads

• Management Quality Assurance (an excerpt from The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz on the HR organization)
• Performance Reviews
  • Driving High Performance ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ← in-depth; in the weeds; extremely practical and helpful
  • The Performance Review: How to Reinvent or Replace Them: A good overview of different approaches to performance reviews.
  • Performance Management at Startups : A good overview of performance management complete with recommendations for tools like Lattice to execute a performance review cycle.
• Leveling, Ladders, & Titles
  • Job Titles and Levels: What Every Software Engineer Needs to Know: An extremely comprehensive resource on how to create levels & career ladders for the engineering organization.
• Off-Sites
  • A Leader's Offsite Survival Guide
• Benefits & Compensation
  • Compensation
    • See Compensation
    • Compensation at Startups
  • Adjusting Stock & Bonuses
    • Adjusting Compensation: Covers how to setup an annual bonus plan, how annual bonus plans differ from other kinds of bonuses (spot bonuses, peer bonuses), how stock refreshes work. This piece is an excerpt from a much larger and comprehensive piece on overall Compensation at Startups.
  • Time Off
    • Vacation, PTO, & Parental Leave Policy Template
    • Parental Leave Benchmarks