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.

Part-Time VPE 98

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

That’s why we immediately started pitching Wilco to every engineer and engineering manager we could talk to. Additionally, I’m honestly just really excited about the team we’ve brought in and the culture we’ve all built together. We talk about unlocking engineers’ potential a lot.

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Puppies, Flowers, Rainbows and Kittens

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

I started as a developer and followed a traditional path of moving up to more senior levels on the development track and then moving to lead, engineering manager, director, VP, and now chief technology officer. Get recommendations of reading or conference talks from your peers in the product, UX, and marketing teams.

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 3, 2024

What this might look like in practice is that when we face a committed deadline (say, a launch date with marketing motions already in place) and a requirement with strong user value suddenly becomes more complex, I now face a situation where requirements + timeline = stress.

Product Management 144

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

AUGUST 13, 2020

As I embarked on this new challenge, I realized that people management and building teams are something that I truly enjoy. I have been fortunate that as I moved from one industry to another, I was able to develop my engineering management experiences and align with the business needs. I never looked back.

Technical Review 130

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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. We’ve doubled the size of the company this year, with growth on all fronts: engineering, product, design, marketing, sales. Marketing and DevRel. No Q4 code freezes for us.

Part-Time VPE 59

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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. We’ve doubled the size of the company this year, with growth on all fronts: engineering, product, design, marketing, sales. Marketing and DevRel. No Q4 code freezes for us.

Part-Time VPE 52

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JUNE 7, 2022

Since tech recruiting can involve interviews with engineering managers and CTOs, hence the interviewing cost for every developer would take into account all shareholders across the process. Every nation has different legal, political, historical, and cultural environments which determine relevant diversity metrics.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

You can ask your CTOs, engineering managers, or team leads for tips related to technical screening of candidates, then write up your own list of developer-proof questions. Work culture. Interesting market and technology trends. University drive day! It’s 8 AM in the morning. How they can make an impact. Types of projects.

Recruiting 130

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Erik Bernhardsson

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

That then gets distributed across the org recursively, and every hiring manager gets a target for how many people to hire. Let’s say the CTO is absolutely adamant that they need to grow the engineering team by 2x in a year. This bubbles down to a junior engineering manager. No one would hire a 2x engineer at 2.1x

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CTOvision

JANUARY 23, 2014

Eric Sammer – Engineering Manager, Cloudera Cloudera 4:15 PM Adjourn/Networking Social. Tom has a distinguished 30-year career in the enterprise software market. Prior to Cloudera, his most recent role was as vice president and general manager of enterprise security at HP. Eric Sammer, Engineering Manager, Cloudera.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 21, 2013

Ryan Blue – Product Engineer, Cloudera, Sean Busbey – Solution Architect, Cloudera Government Solutions, Inc., Eric Sammer – Engineering Manager, Cloudera Cloudera. Tom has a distinguished 30-year career in the enterprise software market. Eric Sammer, Engineering Manager, Cloudera.

Big Data 113

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

APRIL 27, 2020

Last year I moved to Citadel to help drive the SRE team here and spread some of that culture. You have previously been a Senior Engineering Manager at a tech giant, Google and now you are with Citadel, a top company in the financial space. What was the biggest challenge for you during this transition?

Engineering 130

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

MARCH 4, 2020

What if we could create a trade culture that allowed for change rather than relying on mechanical thinking? Drawing on his 40 years in the software industry, GeePaw’s solution is to develop a thick culture in which certain standards are established across the industry. Defining Thick Culture, Thin Culture, and the Frame (4:01).

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Erik Bernhardsson

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

That then gets distributed across the org recursively, and every hiring manager gets a target for how many people to hire. Let’s say the CTO is absolutely adamant that they need to grow the engineering team by 2x in a year. This bubbles down to a junior engineering manager. No one would hire a 2x engineer at 2.1x

Off-The-Shelf 100

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LaunchDarkly

JUNE 25, 2019

The focus of this event was the culture of failure. Specifically, we wanted to hear how the culture of failure (avoiding failure, recovering from failure, and learning from failure) has an impact on how we test in production. ” – Ana Medina, Chaos Engineer at Gremlin. Test in Production is back!

Engineering 82

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Accenture

APRIL 16, 2018

For several years, I was the managing director of SolutionsIQ operations in India. I learned a lot more about the India market than I knew growing up there, and I met interesting people, not the least among them leaders looking for ways to drive change in their organizations. It’s not magic: it’s Agile.

Leadership 65

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

AUGUST 7, 2019

Hiring is difficult in today’s candidate-driven market. What is the developer talent market really like? Can’t say about the stock market but the talent market, for sure, is growing exponentially across the globe. Leverage networking events and social media to let the candidates know about your workplace and the culture.

Software Development 129

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 9, 2020

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Rich Mironov, discuss the all too common disconnect between developers and those on the marketing side of organizations. The culture gap can be hard to cross. Differences in design principles between product and engineering management (1:35). Show Notes.

Weak Development Team 59

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Apiumhub

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Your feedback generates bugs in production by Eli Maruenda Joya – Engineering Manager at Holaluz.com, Inma Navas Peña – Software Engineer at MANGO. Workshop) by Ignasi Marimon-Clos – software engineer at Lightbend. Communication in organizations is vital. Minotaurs, Unicorns, and the Electric Bill.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

In a market where a single contract can easily run into the millions, homogeneity is the herald of reliability and serves to reassure buyers of the worth of their potential purchase. So it’s natural to think a company in the expense report management business would keep it simple and play it by the book.

Travel 302

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Hacker Earth

AUGUST 7, 2019

Hiring is difficult in today’s candidate-driven market. What is the developer talent market really like? Can’t say about the stock market but the talent market, for sure, is growing exponentially across the globe. Leverage networking events and social media to let the candidates know about your workplace and the culture.

Software Development 88

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

To foster better teamwork, both recruiters and hiring managers have to tackle the most common differences and start building stronger relationships. As Katrina Collier says in her newsletter , Get behind the superficial to the REAL cause of why it’s difficult to work with hiring managers.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

MAY 16, 2023

External costs March (cost in USD) Background checks 3000 Pre-screening expenses 1500 Recruitment agency fee 2000 Marketing costs 7000 Technology expenses 5000 Relocation expenses 4000 Total 22,500 Step 4: Add the total number of hires Finally, add the total number of people you hired in the specific month.

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OverOps

APRIL 7, 2019

Companies define what functionality an application offers and that becomes part of the marketing strategy for the application. The other area that is in our control is staying ahead of customer needs, adopting market innovations and identifying new application improvements. Competes with feature development.

Weak Development Team 203

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Kentik

DECEMBER 22, 2021

We’re expanding into new markets, working closely with amazing customers, and continuing to hire talented people to grow our team. As Kentik’s backend engineering manager, I know this has kept our team very busy. As Kentik’s backend engineering manager, I know this has kept our team very busy.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

You can ask your CTOs, engineering managers, or team leads for tips related to technical screening of candidates, then write up your own list of developer-proof questions. Work culture. Interesting market and technology trends. University drive day! It’s 8 AM in the morning. How they can make an impact. Types of projects.

Recruiting 130

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Gitprime

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Therefore, empathy truly is within a manager’s domain. The duties of management remain largely static as an organization scales — engineering managers can and should be responsible for technical management, execution and planning, coaching and development, team health, cultural impact, communication, and overall leadership of a scrum team.

Part-Time VPE 45

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

You can ask your CTOs, engineering managers, or team leads for tips related to technical screening of candidates, then write up your own list of developer-proof questions. Work culture. Interesting market and technology trends. University drive day! It’s 8 AM in the morning. How they can make an impact. Types of projects.

Recruiting 130

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James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

If you have a document-oriented culture, kaizen will help you streamline your documents. If you have a blame-oriented culture, it will help you place blame more accurately. Get Management Buy-In. If you want to be Agile, you need management support. The manager was looking for someone to lead a small team.

Agile 103

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Mobilunity

JANUARY 4, 2023

The advantages of this approach include a quicker time to market, security, higher-quality code, and greater developer cooperation and communication. Freelance DevOps engineers available for hire on a freelance basis can assist your business in fast-releasing small features and making timely code modifications in response to user input.

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Mobilunity

JUNE 5, 2023

Faster Time-to-Market Collaborating with trusted providers accelerates development cycles, reducing time-to-market for automotive solutions. Access to Skilled Professionals Partnering with providers grants access to a talented pool of developers, engineers, and project managers with expertise in automotive software development.

Automotive 52

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 9, 2020

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Rich Mironov, discuss the all too common disconnect between developers and those on the marketing side of organizations. The culture gap can be hard to cross. Differences in design principles between product and engineering management (1:35). Show Notes.

Weak Development Team 72

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James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

If you have a document-oriented culture, kaizen will help you streamline your documents. If you have a blame-oriented culture, it will help you place blame more accurately. Get Management Buy-In. Agile requires management support. Ensure each team includes people who have business, market, and product expertise.

Agile 94

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Cloudera

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Renee Dvir, solution engineering manager, Sydney, Australia. “I Caitriona Snell, channel and alliances marketing, London, UK . “We “We were able to double the amount of packages we delivered to older adults.”. I fed homeless dogs and pigeons.” . I knitted a pair of socks for a friend. Perfect for the colder months!”.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

Both models work on the scale, particularly when the company's core values, priorities, and culture all three are well aligned. Warehouse engineering squad - managing software services related inventory, stocktake, dispatch, allocation, transfer, robotics, etc.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

APRIL 5, 2020

In our first episode of Breaking 404 , a podcast bringing to you stories and unconventional wisdom from engineering leaders of top global organizations around the globe, we caught up with Ajay Sampat , Sr. Engineering Manager, Lyft to understand the challenges that engineering teams across domains face while tackling large user traffic.

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