Joao Alves

Engineering Manager at IndeedFlex

Recent posts

Mar 14, 2021
Why Compensation Is Broken Compensation in the tech world is broken. Companies fail to reward talent accordingly to their value just to go and spend that and more on new hires. How rewarding people properly and having an open and transparent approach to compensation could improve both companies and employees' lives.
Jun 3, 2020
Furlough schemes - solution or problem? Furloughs and other hour reduction schemes have never been talked about as much as during this Covid-19 crisis. Government programs having them as a base and with shared costs...
May 24, 2020
Predictable codebases - a silent retention killer Predictable codebases are great and most teams should aim for it, but it can also be one of the culprits in one of hardest solving problems in tech - retention.
Apr 4, 2020
From Medium to my blog - migrating the content In the final article of the series we're going to look into how I migrated my Medium content to the website and what were the main pain points of the migration...
Mar 28, 2020
Leading people through Covid-19 I've seen several articles out there with great tips on how to best work from home. I would like to look at all of this from a different perspective...