Netlify

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

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. At the end of this month I’m taking an ethics course!

Engineering 52

Engineering Technical Review Software Review Systems Review 52

Honeycomb

AUGUST 3, 2023

So-called “tech debt” could amount to more than two thirds of the different types of work an engineer might touch , if you apply the label broadly. Of course all of this work could make up a significant portion of a responsible engineer’s quarter or year. Interested in reading more about engineering management?

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering Software Engineering Tools 98

Gitprime

MAY 30, 2019

Of course, communication strategies within a distributed team are shaped largely by time zones. We have an engineering manager in Colorado, who was a remote manager before, who helped us understand remote strategies. Of course, every remote engineer has to start sometime. ONBOARD FOR CULTURE.

Engineering 75

Engineering Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Technical Advisors 75

LaunchDarkly

JUNE 12, 2020

Prior to taking on the tactical project manager role, I was in a senior engineering manager role. The technical project manager role was actually pretty new. 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.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Development Engineering 52

TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Framed by Kalanick as his “revenge business” after his previous P2P startup Scour was sued into oblivion for copyright infringement, Red Swoosh would be the precursor for Expensify’s future culture and ethos. And of course, NS1 was birthed from the same alumni network.

Innovation 249

Innovation Internet Engineering Engineering Culture 249

Honeycomb

JULY 14, 2023

You have to leave yourself more slack time As an engineering IC, I used to fill every sliver of my calendar with something. Of course, there is engineering work that only fits into extended, quiet blocks of time and requires deep focus, but there was so much other stuff too.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering Weak Development Team Energy 98