# Hiring, parallelization, and code review practices for engineering teams

DevFeed: [Hiring, parallelization, and code review practices for engineering teams](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/3-things-top-1-teams-do-differently-32319.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://newsletter.manager.dev/newsletter/3-things-top-1-teams-do-differently>)

Author: Anton Zaides

Published: 2026-07-28T06:01:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Manager.dev](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/manager-dev.md>)

Topics: [Software Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software-engineering.md>), [engineering-culture](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/engineering-culture.md>), [sdlc](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sdlc.md>), [pull-requests](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pull-requests.md>), [Job](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/job.md>)

Tags: [code-review](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code-review.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [hiring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hiring.md>), [sdlc](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sdlc.md>), [software-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-engineering.md>)

## AI overview

This guest article discusses three practices the author says engineering teams should focus on: continuously improving hiring, learning to parallelize work effectively, and adapting code review workflows. It presents these ideas as based on the CTO's experience and observations of productive teams.

## Source excerpt

Hiring, parallelization, and why they stopped reviewing most PRs