Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

This post is part of a short series about my experience in the VP of Engineering role at Honeycomb. In February of 2020, I was promoted from Director of Engineering to Honeycomb’s first VP of Engineering. The whole tech industry would benefit from more perspectives in this role.

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Github

MARCH 11, 2020

The company values transparency, especially on the engineering side, so that an engineer in Copenhagen can understand and leverage work happening in San Francisco. As Smale explains, “Our engineering culture is open and centered around teams owning services and being responsible for running them in production.”.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 3, 2023

I created a visualization of the major types of engineering work I saw our teams complete in a quarter: It’s easy to quibble with the specific labels and the categories I’ve stuck them under, and in another organization these might be the wrong set or the wrong categories. Struggling to negotiate time for tech debt?

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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. I believe this human-centered approach is a big part of what’s helped us attract so many amazing new hires. — Alex Hidalgo (@ahidalgosre) December 24, 2020. So many wins in 2020.

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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. I believe this human-centered approach is a big part of what’s helped us attract so many amazing new hires. — Alex Hidalgo (@ahidalgosre) December 24, 2020. So many wins in 2020.

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Gitprime

MAY 30, 2019

Mailchimp’s engineering team is about 350 people, both distributed and remote, across the United States. Katie Womersley , VP of Engineering at Buffer. Buffer has a fully distributed engineering team—no home base, no hub, no offices. The engineering org is 35 people worldwide, covering nearly every time zone.

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LaunchDarkly

JUNE 12, 2020

On May 21, for the Test in Production Meetup on Twitch , Yoz Grahame, Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly, moderated a panel discussion featuring Rebecca Murphey, Senior Technical PM at Indeed, and Ben Vinegar, VP of Engineering at Sentry. And again, organization size matters here a lot. Watch the full panel discussion below.

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