Honeycomb
JULY 12, 2023
This post is part of a short series about my experience in the VP of Engineering role at Honeycomb. In February of 2020, I was promoted from Director of Engineering to Honeycomb’s first VP of Engineering. Happily, all these things turned out to be true and are still true to this day.
Gitprime
SEPTEMBER 30, 2019
Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” Therefore, empathy truly is within a manager’s domain. This role doesn’t change whether an engineering org is 5, 500, or 5000 strong. We started hiring remote folks, and we wanted to reduce that abstraction,” he says.
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Honeycomb
AUGUST 19, 2022
Or, the small crisis with engineering management. In 2018, Honeycomb co-founder & CTO Charity Majors wrote a blog post titled, “An Engineer’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities).” When it was originally posted, back in 2018, it was timely. I’m also no longer primarily a line manager myself.
Gitprime
DECEMBER 31, 2018
GitPrime elevates engineering leadership with objective data. In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. Johnathan Nightingale has seen first-hand how powerful a solid management structure can be for growing organizations. “We Why management matters.
Hacker Earth Developers Blog
AUGUST 13, 2020
In our fifth episode of Breaking 404 , we caught up with Monica Bajaj, Senior Director of Engineering, Workday to hear out the different biases that exist in tech roles across organizations and how difficult it can get for a woman to reach a senior position, especially in tech. I never looked back. How do you work together?
Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts
JULY 11, 2019
There is an inherent difference between leaders and managers that is often overlooked. While most think that leaders are “born,” Katie Womersley, VP of Engineering at Buffer, disagrees. Leaders vs. Managers. Setting expectations for leadership growth. Perception management and vulnerability. Episode 11.
Gitprime
MAY 30, 2019
Mailchimp’s engineering team is about 350 people, both distributed and remote, across the United States. Katie Womersley , VP of Engineering at Buffer. Buffer has a fully distributed engineering team—no home base, no hub, no offices. The engineering org is 35 people worldwide, covering nearly every time zone.
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