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What it’s like to be a backend engineer at Netlify

Netlify

People often end up pairing when there’s a need, or a desire for social contact, and sometimes these turn into huge group sessions that last for hours when nobody watches time , with everybody doing their thing and working almost as if we were sitting right next to each other.

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Leading Remote and Distributed Engineering Teams – Top Takeaways from the Panel

Gitprime

And the same goes for distributed managers, as well—particularly when an organization is starting to go remote. We have an engineering manager in Colorado, who was a remote manager before, who helped us understand remote strategies. Finding someone with good experience was super helpful for us,” Muntz says. “We

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The Rise of the Front-End Developer

LaunchDarkly

Prior to taking on the tactical project manager role, I was in a senior engineering manager role. The technical project manager role was actually pretty new. But as the engineering manager there, I grew a team from zero. A team of me to a team of about somewhere between 20 and 25 software engineers.

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

Honeycomb

The further you go on the management ladder, the more doing a good job in your role can become decoupled from appearing to your team to do a good job in your role. Managing and making management visible turn out to be two mostly distinct groups of skills.