apidays LIVE Paris 2021 - APIs and the Future of Software December 7, 8 & 9, 2021 What makes developers happy in 2021 Damien Cavaillès, CEO at WeLoveDevs.com

2. WeLoveDevs is inspiring developers for 6 years to drive an happier life
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6. Hiring Golden Triangle

10. What have learned so far ?

11. If you had to change only one thing ?
Remuneration
Resources to achieve quality
Job’s location
Impact of IT
Career Path
Continuous self-training
Developer’s consideration
Caring
Diversity and inclusion
Confirmation bias

12. Dernière dans les sondages
Première sur les interviews

13. Care
Making mistakes is okay
“Hard with code, kind with people”

14. Care
Learn :
NonViolent Communication

15. Starting tomorrow :
- Pick your word wisely
- Watch, care, about violence in speech
- Mind not to express value-based judgement
“He isn’t able to make a proper Pull Request”
“Hey would you like me to show you how I like to do PR ?”
Learn :
Nonviolent Communication

16. Care
Learn :
How to build a relation

17. Learn :
How to build a relation

18. Learn :
How to build a relation
Starting tomorrow :
- Take 45 minutes with this significant coworker and
learn about them outside of the day to day work
- Start making feedback, babysteps
- Learn to speak about you, babysteps
“So, how are the kids going?”
“Wanna come home have a Ricard this week?”

19. Parlons des salaires

20. What’s :
The blame culture ?

21. Dry run

22. Solution
Good answers were :
1/ Send support to engineers at AWS 💪
2/ Offer help to your Ops/Cloud teams 🍪
3/ Keep calm and follow DRP

23. Offer
Safe Space
Build
Safeguards

24. Parlons des salaires

25. Rems

26. Rems
https://welovedevs.com/fr/salaires

27. Remuneration
My Salary is not defined by my worth

28. Remuneration
My Salary is defined by the value created for the
company
The larger budget my team/product will have, the
larger salary I can get

29. Remuneration
Learn :
Financial Management

30. Learn :
Financial Management
Starting tomorrow
- Ask about your rate, or a budgets
- Consider business value before implementing
- Learn how decision are made
“What’s this project forecast?”
“How much has been spent on this API?”
“Who’s the manager of David working with us lately?”

31. Is there a big picture over there ?

32. What has been said
"Pour l'instant stratégiques, mais on externalise de plus en plus. Les devs partent ailleurs, et comme il n'y
a pas de remplaçants, c'est une boîte de presta qui remplace."
“For now we are considered as strategic, but there is more and more externalised workforce. Developer’s
are quitting the company and replaced by a consultant”
"Il y a encore 3 ans, on était plutôt sur une dévalorisation des devs, mais grâce à l'arrivée d'un nouveau
DSI nous avons réussi à revoir notre stratégie de make or buy, et donc de revaloriser le développement”.
“3 years from now, developers weren’t considered. But a new CIO came in. He allowed us to revise our
make or buy strategy and have more consideration for what we build.”
"On est remplaçables, on cherche à nous faire partir pour nous remplacer par de la sous-traitance"
“We are replacable. They are looking to make us go and replace us with subcontractors”

33. IT Governance
Make or Buy
Subcontracting policy
Product Culture

34. Learn :
IT Governance
Starting tomorrow :
- Identify decision-makers
- Understand what are the Vendors’s stake
- Ask nicely why
“Why are we deploying on AWS and not Azure?”
“Why are we outsourcing project number 5?”
“Why?”

35. Aka. La qualité

36. “You are only as good as your last Job”

37. Les moyens
Tools (IDE)
Training
Time / Estimates
CI / CD
TDD
Security

38. Learn :
Test Driven Development
Starting tomorrow :
- Learn to say “NOOOOOO”
- Go to community of practice
- Better CI ? Or better tests ?
“Can you add this quickly, it’s just a button :
- NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO”

39. Agile or Craft
Community of practices
Mentoring
OKR
InnerSource

40. 50 Shade of

41. Developer’s point of view

42. Companies point of view

43. Home working
A matter of trust

44. Not only home working
"Télétravailleur partiel + vélotaffeur campagnard”
“vélotaffeur urbain”
“Nomade digital”
“Vélotaffeur nomade, pouvoir skier l'hiver, bronzer sur la plage l'été et profiter de la France les
autres saisons ;)”
“A une distance raisonnable de mon domicile, pour pouvoir y aller facilement quand j'en ai envie,
et télétravailler quand je le souhaite”
“De beaux bureaux avec une belle connexion fibre, a 2km de la maison (j'ai connu)”

45. Home working
Over 194 job listing, 30 are full-remote

46. Home working
Ain’t a benefit but a charge

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