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

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Running untrusted code in-process and ensuring it doesn’t spend too long executing and doesn’t block the whole process. As an engineer based in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa), I usually start my work day earlier than folks in the Pacific time zone. Ownership and trust are some of the best features of our culture for me.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

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My purpose as a Developer Advocate is to help software teams with their work, and that work can have positive ripple effects. At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. No Q4 code freezes for us. no oversharing or prying).

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

My purpose as a Developer Advocate is to help software teams with their work, and that work can have positive ripple effects. At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. No Q4 code freezes for us. no oversharing or prying).

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How to Effectively Lead High-Performing Engineering Teams

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The overall theme is high-performing engineering teams are generally the ones that humanize the process. Whether you’re trying to increase productivity or release better-quality code, the biggest piece of advice is to lead with empathy. . Fostering a healthy engineering culture. Engineering Manager, Slack . “It’s

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

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I was always able to find something to squeeze in between meetings or at the end of the day: convert a file to typescript, look at a dashboard, read a document, refactor a test, do a code review, check in with a teammate, answer a question in slack, etc.