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

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Nonetheless, I think it’s useful to share what I can about my experience in the hope that it might encourage others to seriously consider this role, especially those from backgrounds, identities, and genders poorly represented in the VP of Engineering ranks today. The whole tech industry would benefit from more perspectives in this role.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. Our existing deploy tooling and engineering culture made the transition to remote work go much more smoothly. No Q4 code freezes for us. And the things we’re planning to do are so.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. Our existing deploy tooling and engineering culture made the transition to remote work go much more smoothly. No Q4 code freezes for us. And the things we’re planning to do are so.

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

Honeycomb

Departments or teams can burn through an infinite amount of energy re-litigating these decisions with stakeholders if the exec team doesn’t tell the story of these tradeoffs from above and make clear that the avenue for strategy concerns is mostly up, not sideways. However, I learned to leave myself more slack to respond to unexpected things.