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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

One thing that stood out to me this year was how much our leadership team went out of their way to make sure folks felt taken care of. At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. It is not normal, it is not necessary, it is costly as f**k.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

One thing that stood out to me this year was how much our leadership team went out of their way to make sure folks felt taken care of. At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. It is not normal, it is not necessary, it is costly as f**k.

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

Honeycomb

Our exec team works to mitigate this by providing a window into the strategy creation process and cascading context about team discussions to our ICs and especially our managers, but it takes ongoing effort and there’s always room to get better. Managing and making management visible turn out to be two mostly distinct groups of skills.