Today marks the launch of an experiment in my blogging. As you know, I post 3 times per week, with some topics coming on a regular basis. I want to try something out and introduce a Theme of the Month. Through this new approach, I want to provide a bit of consistency to my posts,…
The 5 questions to test the validity of a statistical analysis
April 29, 2012 by Leave a Comment
In this instalment of Sunday Skills, I want to direct you to a podcast from Stephanie Thomas at The Proactive Employer. What to do when your results are statistically (in)significant lasts about 15 minutes and you won’t regret spending this quarter of an hour listening to Stephanie expand on the 5 questions you should ask…
The value of post-mortem analysis for Compensation projects
April 26, 2012 by 2 Comments
A practice has helped me a lot in my career : to perform a post-mortem at the end of a project. You may call it a recap, wrap-up or a review. Post-mortems are common in the software engineering industry. Well, after all I worked for both Microsoft and Apple – I had to learn something…
Relocations : do you offer cash or services ?
April 24, 2012 by Leave a Comment
In essence, this question was recently asked on LinkedIn and addressed corporate relocation policies for candidates from one part of the USA to another, and whether companies provide money or support services. I’ll transfer it to the situation that a lot of us are faced with in the GCC : dealing with middle to high…
Earth Day – Will you care ?
April 22, 2012 by 2 Comments
It’s Earth Day today and this won’t be my usual post on Compensation & Benefits related topics. Caring for the environment – a family affair You see, I believe that we should all look for sustainability- the world population is now more than 7 billions, and we need to ensure that we can all live…
The Netflix Employee Value Proposition
April 19, 2012 by 1 Comment
When I was preparing for my previous post on Netflix, my attention was drawn to a small part of Reed Hastings’ interview. He said : “We care about great work. This requires thoughtful, mature high-performance employees.” (emphasis is mine). So I went on a path of discovery to try and find more information about the…
