Twelve engineers, nine nationalities, one potluck: what a lunch taught me about managing people
السلام عليكم. A short one, and not very technical. I manage twelve engineers at a logistics company in Dubai. Between us we are from Sudan, Egypt, India (three of them, from three states that will never agree on rice), Pakistan, the Philippines, Jordan, Nigeria, Ukraine and Russia. Yes, both. They sit next to each other and review each other's pull requests, and I will come back to that. Every quarter, instead of a…