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

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I understand why: the stakes for public comment become higher as you move up the ladder, every social media post has the potential to be interpreted as a subtweet or request, and your highest-priority work is often deeply entangled with confidential company and personnel matters. A genuine joy in seeing teammates level up.

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Engineers New to Honeycomb, What Did You First Notice About How We Do Things Here?

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The energy is infectious. There’s also a strong debugging culture. There’s also a wonderful culture of documenting everything in living documents, so it’s easier to find things if I have questions. For me, it’s the emphasis on the social aspects of engineering, despite this being a very engineering and product-driven company.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

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We’ve witnessed or directly experienced racist injustice, social unrest, and state violence. In March I wrote the following: Observability is a paradigm on which we can build a safe, healthy, sustainable future for the tech industry. A better tech industry is better for supporting this complex, interdependent society we live in.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

We’ve witnessed or directly experienced racist injustice, social unrest, and state violence. In March I wrote the following: Observability is a paradigm on which we can build a safe, healthy, sustainable future for the tech industry. A better tech industry is better for supporting this complex, interdependent society we live in.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 2: Doing the Job

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Departments or teams can burn through an infinite amount of energy re-litigating these decisions with stakeholders if the exec team doesn’t tell the story of these tradeoffs from above and make clear that the avenue for strategy concerns is mostly up, not sideways. However, I learned to leave myself more slack to respond to unexpected things.