Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

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.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering B2C Technical Review 98

Netlify

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

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. I love all of our social Slack rooms.

Engineering 52

Engineering Technical Review Software Review Systems Review 52

Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

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.

Part-Time VPE 57

Part-Time VPE Technical Review Engineering Software Review 57

Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

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.

Part-Time VPE 52

Part-Time VPE Technical Review Engineering Software Review 52

Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2022

Fostering a healthy engineering culture. Charity and James also talked about how the right organizational culture fosters a ——and, combined with the right tooling (aka observability)—the teams that embrace both generally lead the pack when it comes to higher performance. . Engineering Manager, Slack . “It’s

Engineering 52

Engineering Performance How To Systems Review 52

Gitprime

MAY 30, 2019

The simple truth is that not every engineer is in ideal circumstances for remote work. For instance, distributed team members tend to work in more solitary settings, so highly extroverted people who value the social aspects of working with a team may not be the best fits for those positions.

Engineering 75

Engineering Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Technical Advisors 75

Honeycomb

JULY 14, 2023

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.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering Weak Development Team Energy 98