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

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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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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

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This normalized parenting in a way I’ve never experienced in a job before: one point from today's incident review "what went well" section: > [employee] felt empowered to say "I'm parenting" and not step into the incident. 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

This normalized parenting in a way I’ve never experienced in a job before: one point from today's incident review "what went well" section: > [employee] felt empowered to say "I'm parenting" and not step into the incident. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant.