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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

Honeycomb

While Charity has deep experience in the domains of infrastructure & operations, databases, and backend engineering, I come originally from design, frontend, and product engineering, and I take a particular joy in collaborating with product management and ux design. A genuine joy in seeing teammates level up.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

Our existing deploy tooling and engineering culture made the transition to remote work go much more smoothly. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant. We now have a 1:2 ratio of product managers to designers, which is super unusual. No Q4 code freezes for us.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

Our existing deploy tooling and engineering culture made the transition to remote work go much more smoothly. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant. We now have a 1:2 ratio of product managers to designers, which is super unusual. No Q4 code freezes for us.