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How we hosted one of the most memorable open source hackathons of 2018

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Our engineering culture embodies the essence of open source, and it’s a small contribution to the community ? That’s why our focus was to create an environment in which the participants could bond and socialize, infusing code with fun! For example, an engineer who buckled down free food and did not win may go home.

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Making the Internet faster at Netflix

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

And for me, the big part of the success of growth was actually a step above the pure engineering architecture. It’s firstly rooted in the engineering culture because the first Netflix employees are great people. And I think another factor comes from the understanding of the problem. Links: Twitter: @sfedov.

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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.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

How fast could it travel if there were no backlogs, no loopbacks, no red spots on the process map? They had a list of customer frustrations gleaned from various sources, including artificial intelligence tools scanning social media. They create an engaging engineering culture. That’s friction. They obsess over customers.