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

Netlify

Something I love is that when a PR is opened, the entire team is notified so anyone can jump onboard to comment and review. What’s your favorite part about the engineering culture (or company culture) at Netlify? Being able to have honest 1:1s with my manager and seeing results come from it.

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Why did file sharing drive so much startup innovation?

TechCrunch

Expensify founder and CEO David] Barrett, a self-proclaimed alpha geek and lifelong software engineer, was actually Red Swoosh’s last engineering manager, hired after the failure of his first project, iGlance.com , a P2P push-to-talk program that couldn’t compete against Skype.