James Shore

APRIL 27, 2024

Enough that I don’t do any coding myself, and the managers that report to me don’t have time to do much either.) What I’m really doing is changing the engineering culture at OpenSesame. Culture doesn’t change easily. Bigger than a breadbox, anyway. It tends to snap back. This makes room for a lot more skills.

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Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

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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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. I really like the interactions I have with my teammates!

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

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.

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

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.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 3, 2023

Interested in reading more about engineering management? Read my article on Becoming a VP of Engineering. Sometimes, using a label that speaks directly to the business value of a type of work can do wonders to help both sides find a way to move forward. The post Anything But Tech Debt appeared first on Honeycomb.

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2022

Fostering a healthy engineering culture. Charity and James also talked about how the right organizational culture fosters a ——and, combined with the right tooling (aka observability)—the teams that embrace both generally lead the pack when it comes to higher performance. . Engineering Manager, Slack . “It’s

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