Episode 8: Work life balance and on-boarding new engineers

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Episode 8: Work life balance and on-boarding new engineers

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26 minutes

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Apr 25, 2016

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In episode 8, Jamison and Dave answer these questions:

How do you achieve work life balance? Do you have any strategies that work for you? Any bad examples from your own lives?

How do you on-board new engineers?

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Apr 25, 2016

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