Raising Engineers, David Dettmer
Raising Engineers, David Dettmer
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Raising Engineers
A Founder's Guide to Building a High-Performing Engineering Team

Author: David Dettmer

Narrator: Marco Cammarota

Unabridged: 2 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/30/2022


Synopsis

You have the idea, the drive, and now the capital to create the company you’ve always envisioned. Now comes the most important part: assembling a team of high performers.

To build a sustainable business, you need engineers who can execute on common goals. Who do you hire, and how do you hire the people you need? What qualities are you looking for? How will you motivate these engineers and inspire their best work?

In Raising Engineers, David Dettmer helps you create a culture that reflects your business, establish a working process to cultivate a strong team, and hire the right people to build impactful products. As the leader of Product and Engineering of many successful startups, David has developed a methodology that can help any startup build a high-performing engineering team. Now, he’s helping others discover the iterative cycle for developing teams that will take their business to the next level. This book is your chance to learn from other founders just like you, gain concrete strategies you can use for life, and align your company in the pursuit of common goals.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lucille on October 12, 2025

A short, readable book about hiring and maintaining engineering teams. Focused on founders, often uses rules of thumb that I wouldn't personally agree with (engineer complaint about prior workplace indicates hard to work with? seems like a poor heuristic imo). Nonetheless, a good start on managing a......more