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Scaling Engineering Teams from 5 to 500 and Beyond

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You can watch the entire webinar here , or read on for six highlights from the discussion with Randy Shoup , the VP of Engineering at WeWork; Cornelia Davis , the Senior Director of Technology at Pivotal; and Saminda Wijegunawardena , the Vice President of Engineering at Box. Where do you put the contracts in place?

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Scaling Organizational Empathy With Box’s VPE, Saminda Wijegunawardena

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Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” This role doesn’t change whether an engineering org is 5, 500, or 5000 strong. Develop a means of cultural acknowledgment. Yet developing that empathy going forward is founded on the people a scaling organization hires.

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How Splice Builds Globally Distributed Engineering Teams

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For the last ten years, Buriticá has successfully been building and scaling distributed engineering teams and Latin American open source software communities. In this interview, Buriticá delves into the ins and outs of sourcing engineers in other countries, including universal lessons he’s learned from his own very particular experiences.