Honeycomb

AUGUST 19, 2022

Or, the small crisis with engineering management. In 2018, Honeycomb co-founder & CTO Charity Majors wrote a blog post titled, “An Engineer’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities).” These constraints incentivized managers to think hard about how to retain and grow their best senior engineers.

Engineering 145

Engineering Part-Time VPE CTO Coach Engineering Management 145

Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

I was curious about moving up the engineering management ladder eventually, but I assumed a VP opportunity would be out of reach for a long time, if ever. As Charity mentioned in her blog post, at a slightly rocky point in the company trajectory, we did also explore hiring a VP of Engineering from outside the company.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering B2C Technical Review 98

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Manager dens- where you can experience coaching, mentoring, and a safe space, Vegas rules session. @23:57. Mentoring is sharing advice and perspective; coaching is helping someone come to their own conclusions. @25:56. Coaching is what helps people grow. @26:26. What are you optimizing for? @30:24. Marcus: What is that?

CTO Coach 52

CTO Coach Coaching Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE 52

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

I do a lot of coaching with senior leaders and managers to help them keep their cool. See, it’s really easy for you as a manager to observe generally how people are working. You as this ELM, the software engineering manager, you get a notion for what people are doing. It takes energy, effort.

Weak Development Team 74

Weak Development Team Culture Tools Leadership 74

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JANUARY 22, 2020

And I wrote about this in the book, I had this very important meeting with, he was the first engineering manager at Netscape, and then he came over and helped out at my startup for a little while. Michael: Yeah and it’s… The thing about, I say this because my coach told me this long time ago, feedback is a gift.

Leadership 59

Leadership Weak Development Team Engineering Culture 59

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JANUARY 22, 2020

And I wrote about this in the book, I had this very important meeting with, he was the first engineering manager at Netscape, and then he came over and helped out at my startup for a little while. Michael: Yeah and it’s… The thing about, I say this because my coach told me this long time ago, feedback is a gift.

Leadership 52

Leadership Weak Development Team Engineering Culture 52