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Anything But Tech Debt

Honeycomb

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?

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What it’s like to be a backend engineer at Netlify

Netlify

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. On top of that, every Netlifolk has an education budget per year to spend on books, courses and webinars to further their professional development.

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Leading Remote and Distributed Engineering Teams – Top Takeaways from the Panel

Gitprime

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.

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The Rise of the Front-End Developer

LaunchDarkly

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.

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Why did file sharing drive so much startup innovation?

TechCrunch

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.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 2: Doing the Job

Honeycomb

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.