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

Honeycomb

This post is part of a short series about my experience in the VP of Engineering role at Honeycomb. In February of 2020, I was promoted from Director of Engineering to Honeycomb’s first VP of Engineering. Happily, all these things turned out to be true and are still true to this day.

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An Engineering Manager’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities)

Honeycomb

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).” When it was originally posted, back in 2018, it was timely. We’ve recently updated and reposted it.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

I believe this human-centered approach is a big part of what’s helped us attract so many amazing new hires. We’ve doubled the size of the company this year, with growth on all fronts: engineering, product, design, marketing, sales. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

I believe this human-centered approach is a big part of what’s helped us attract so many amazing new hires. We’ve doubled the size of the company this year, with growth on all fronts: engineering, product, design, marketing, sales. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant.

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Rise of the Resilient Manager with Lara Hogan

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Resilient management has to do with making sure your bucket of energy is healthy. @35:01. Marcus: Why did you feel this was the right time for this book? I was finding myself in coaching call after coaching call talking about the same challenges. Now you brought up Jason’s blog post, which I adore. Lara: Exactly.

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The Ultimate Workplace Productivity Guide You Should Read to Get Things Done

Codegiant

Meyer: I don’t want this to be another one of those all-talk, no-action blog posts that lists down useless workplace productivity tips, just for the sake of it. Honestly, such blog posts are more inclined towards boosting a website’s SEO, rather than delivering actual value. And here’s one of my favorites from Paul J. That’s insane.

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The Ultimate Workplace Productivity Guide You Should Read to Get Things Done

Codegiant

Meyer: I don’t want this to be another one of those all-talk, no-action blog posts that lists down useless workplace productivity tips, just for the sake of it. Honestly, such blog posts are more inclined towards boosting a website’s SEO, rather than delivering actual value. That’s insane.