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

Honeycomb

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.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

We’ve witnessed or directly experienced racist injustice, social unrest, and state violence. Wildfires and hurricanes didn’t take a vacation in 2020, and our distributed team managed to get hit with both simultaneously, multiple times. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

We’ve witnessed or directly experienced racist injustice, social unrest, and state violence. Wildfires and hurricanes didn’t take a vacation in 2020, and our distributed team managed to get hit with both simultaneously, multiple times. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant.

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

Gitprime

Making sure that leadership teams are in the loop and aligned and ready to answer questions before the rest of the individual contributors get the information has been super helpful for us.”. The simple truth is that not every engineer is in ideal circumstances for remote work. That expertise, and listening to it, is huge.”.

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

Honeycomb

If I was feeling drained in some way — short on focus, over-socialized, under-socialized — I could shift gears to some other kind of useful work that allowed me to replenish that energy. As a manager, this sort of energy balancing felt harder, but still doable — as long as most things were going according to plan.