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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

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Nonetheless, I think it’s useful to share what I can about my experience in the hope that it might encourage others to seriously consider this role, especially those from backgrounds, identities, and genders poorly represented in the VP of Engineering ranks today. The whole tech industry would benefit from more perspectives in this role.

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Establishing and Enabling a Center of Production Excellence

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I’ve noted several ideas that might be characterized as “passive” in this blog post. To counter this, one might consider adopting the model of the Engineer/Manager Pendulum or other techniques of rotating leaders like sortition. In the meantime, feel free to try Honeycomb today —it’s free.

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What it’s like to be a backend engineer at Netlify

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What’s your favorite part about the engineering culture (or company culture) at Netlify? Being able to have honest 1:1s with my manager and seeing results come from it. Ownership and trust are some of the best features of our culture for me. I really like the interactions I have with my teammates!

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

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At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. Our existing deploy tooling and engineering culture made the transition to remote work go much more smoothly. No Q4 code freezes for us. Marketing and DevRel.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. Our existing deploy tooling and engineering culture made the transition to remote work go much more smoothly. No Q4 code freezes for us. Marketing and DevRel.

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How to Effectively Lead High-Performing Engineering Teams

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She offers more tips in this blog post, “ Ask Miss O11y: I Don’t Want to be On Call Anymore. Fostering a healthy engineering culture. The two also dove a bit deeper into the topic of creating a culture of experimentation among your team. Engineering Manager, Slack . “It’s Am I a Monster?