Ohad Laufer

Management is a thankless job

I came up with the title for this article following a recent argument I’ve had at the workplace. Then, just before starting to write - I goo

The Story of How we made Wix Accessible

One of Wix’s known mottos is “The Way the Web was Meant to Be”. We at WIx truly believe that everyone should have a website, and of...

Chat etiquette

As the different chat and messaging services are invading our lives, I've decided to put together a list of rules that everyone should...

Google AMP conf - Summary

Last week I attended AMP conference by Google in NY. In addition to the sessions I attended, I also got a chance to discuss AMP in...

Be Positive

The other day I got some valuable feedback from my manager. Too often I come up as too pessimistic, borderline bad-tempered. This didn't...

10 minutes writing drill

As many others do, I going to start a new experiment - for the next 10 days I'll spend the first 10 minutes of the day writing. Why?...

Let the journey begin

After a long break, we plan to start recruiting again, and this time from a more powerful position. Previously when I recruited, I was...

First one on one

I recently read this post about Questions to ask on the first 1:1 with a new employee. I must say that only from reading the topic I had...

Team Values

Every team should have a set of values they agree on and can always get back to. While that's not always easy to achieve. I think that...

Offsite - Day 4 and Summary

The offsite concluded in a day (half a day, actually) dedicated to discussing the new structure and practices. This was a day that I...

Offsite - Day 3

3rd day of the offsite was dedicated to an outdoors activity. The second best way to cause developer bonding is by drinking together (The...

Offsite - Day 2

The second day of the offsite was dedicated to our product. Tomer, our Product Manager, lead this day and its goals were: Sync on the...

Offsite - Day 1

Previously on the Blog team: I wrote in the past about my pitch to get a new team from Ukraine. Time have passed and it was actually...

Politics

No, I'm not gonna talk about Trump. I want to share an experience I had recently and the emotions that followed it. If you're not new to...

Working with Offshore Office

My dev team is buid of 5 developers, 3 of which are stationed in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. I've been managing offshore for about 1.5 years...