CircleCI

OCTOBER 25, 2021

This post was written by Stig Brautaset, CircleCI Senior Software Engineer, in collaboration with Cian Synnott, CircleCI Senior Staff Software Engineer. Retrospectives are a well-established resource in the software and systems engineering toolbox. What is a personal retrospective?

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Honeycomb

MAY 15, 2024

Start from the bottom The first thing to do is find as many of those intrinsically-motivated individuals and bring them together in a regular meeting to talk about the CoPE’s mandate, what they want to achieve, and why.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 2, 2022

We’ve wondered, in the past, what new engineers think about how we do things at Honeycomb. Meet Elliott and Reid, two of our engineers that recently hit their 90 day mark. There’s also a strong debugging culture. We’re hiring across many departments (just so happens we have spots for new engineers, too)!

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LeanEssays

JULY 14, 2019

He describes “some surprising theories about software engineering”: I discuss these theories in terms of two fundamentally different development styles, the "cathedral" model of most of the commercial world versus the "bazaar" model of the Linux world. If you give software engineers manual work, their first instinct is to automate it.

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 14, 2021

Eric and his team have a meeting with their project manager. Software engineers are not typists who translate requirements into software. Software engineers contribute to designing the products and features they are building. Eric explains that the refactoring adds short-term risk but reduces long-term risk.

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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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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JUNE 26, 2020

And for me, the big part of the success of growth was actually a step above the pure engineering architecture. It’s firstly rooted in the engineering culture because the first Netflix employees are great people. I was both enjoying the ways, done the story behind it, and it had a huge educational component.

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LaunchDarkly

JUNE 12, 2020

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. All focused on trying to level up Indeed’s front end engineering capabilities. But I want to at least demonstrate that I’m going to try and meet the challenge.”

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LaunchDarkly

JANUARY 14, 2020

That’s fascinating because it touches on so much of what you know and I’ve been in software engineering for a couple of decades now, a couple of days, decades, but sounds like couple of days. I like that kind of meeting. While we’re having that meeting, there’s another service being created.

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Honeycomb

JULY 14, 2023

The purpose of recurring meetings also changes somewhat: the most valuable signal I listen for in many recurring meetings is information about how and when we need to deviate from our plans, rather than how we can best stick to them. Is there friction? Are our teams thriving? Are we preparing adequately for an uncertain future?

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