Honeycomb

AUGUST 2, 2022

E : Programming in an overly-defensive manner is probably the big one! doesn’t turn any heads; everyone I’ve talked to has experience with what it takes to build a great organization (and product), from all different perspectives of the industry. Q: What are some bad habits you had to unlearn from other companies?

Engineering 52

Engineering Technical Review Software Review Culture 52

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JUNE 26, 2020

What was the first programming language you, you ever recorded in and you still use that? And for the first few months, I was just doing things like discussing different bits and pieces about programming and all I had was a paper to write different things on. Uh, so yeah for me the first programming language is Pascal.

Internet 200

Internet Engineering Architecture Network 200

LaunchDarkly

JUNE 12, 2020

But as the engineering manager there, I grew a team from zero. A team of me to a team of about somewhere between 20 and 25 software engineers. All focused on trying to level up Indeed’s front end engineering capabilities. The technical project manager role was actually pretty new. “I want to make video games.”

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Development Engineering 52

TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Expensify founder and CEO David] Barrett, a self-proclaimed alpha geek and lifelong software engineer, was actually Red Swoosh’s last engineering manager, hired after the failure of his first project, iGlance.com , a P2P push-to-talk program that couldn’t compete against Skype.

Innovation 249

Innovation Internet Engineering Engineering Culture 249

Honeycomb

JULY 14, 2023

For example, right as I was transitioning into this role, I did inhumane things with my own schedule to quickly build out our SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance programs at the request of our go-to-market leaders.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering Weak Development Team Energy 98

LeanEssays

JULY 14, 2019

He describes “some surprising theories about software engineering”: I discuss these theories in terms of two fundamentally different development styles, the "cathedral" model of most of the commercial world versus the "bazaar" model of the Linux world. If you give software engineers manual work, their first instinct is to automate it.

Software Review 91

Software Review Software Engineering Continuous Delivery Technical Review 91

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Nor would many popular programming languages, including Go, Rust, Python, JavaScript, and Ruby. Chander Damodaran of Brillio noted that, “the culture of sharing solutions, frameworks, and industry-leading practices” has been a crucial part of Brillio’s journey. More importantly, open source has unleashed tremendous creativity.

Open Source 80

Open Source Engineering Culture Weak Development Team Fractional CTO 80