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What Makes a Tech Interview Great? Hear an Engineer’s Perspective

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

It was clear that they had done their research and thoroughly reviewed my resume. Their coding tools were also flexible, which made it easy for me to provide my answers. The only golden words an engineer would hear: “Thank you for your time but unfortunately you couldn’t make it through :-(” This is a sad moment for engineers.

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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. Engineering. Every Friday we have demo day and it’s the highlight of my week. Our existing deploy tooling and engineering culture made the transition to remote work go much more smoothly.

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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. Engineering. Every Friday we have demo day and it’s the highlight of my week. Our existing deploy tooling and engineering culture made the transition to remote work go much more smoothly.

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Bjorn Freeman-Benson: Three Challenges of Distributed Teams

James Shore

Bjorn is an experienced software leader. Bjorn described three challenges for distributed teams: the n+1 management problem, the junior people problem, and the friction of communication problem. The N+1 Management Problem. “For an engineering manager role, you have to hire people with director-level skills.”

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Bjorn Freeman-Benson: Three Challenges of Distributed Teams

James Shore

Bjorn is an experienced software leader. Bjorn described three challenges for distributed teams: the n+1 management problem, the junior people problem, and the friction of communication problem. The N+1 Management Problem. “For an engineering manager role, you have to hire people with director-level skills.”

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Speeding Up the Enterprise: Virtual Squads at InVision

LaunchDarkly

On June 18, Ben Wilson, Engineering Manager at InVision, spoke at LaunchDarkly’s Test in Production Twitch Stream. Ben explained the process of how, when, and why a virtual squad may be your best bet to speed up decision-making and time-to-release across your engineering, product, and design organizations.

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Mentorship, Coaching, and Sponsorship — A Powerful Framework for Building Resilient Teams

Gitprime

Resilient Management is Hogan’s third book, and the first to focus entirely on the ever-shifting world of engineering management and people-leadership. “As As engineers, we have that solid internal barometer of success,” she says. “We We know what it looks like to succeed. We know what it looks like to be productive.