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

Gitprime

Engineering is still a human sport at the end of the day.”. The simple truth is that not every engineer is in ideal circumstances for remote work. The technical aspects of onboarding are going to happen with their teams, where leadership is really about the cultural onboarding,” Muntz says.

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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. People were more likely to listen to what I had to say on social media, whether it was interesting or not.