TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Expensify founder and CEO David] Barrett, a self-proclaimed alpha geek and lifelong software engineer, was actually Red Swoosh’s last engineering manager, hired after the failure of his first project, iGlance.com , a P2P push-to-talk program that couldn’t compete against Skype.

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Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

I was curious about moving up the engineering management ladder eventually, but I assumed a VP opportunity would be out of reach for a long time, if ever. Camille Fournier’s The Manager’s Path is one good exception to this. The post On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP appeared first on Honeycomb.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 3, 2023

There’s a lot to say about refactoring, with many good books written on the topic. Interested in reading more about engineering management? Read my article on Becoming a VP of Engineering. But the important thing that often goes unacknowledged is that many refactorings fail.

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Honeycomb

MAY 15, 2024

Management must create buffers which support the Center of Production Excellence if it deems these activities necessary. Another way that management can contribute is to look at unusual backgrounds or skills as assets, not distractions.

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Netlify

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

What’s your favorite part about the engineering culture (or company culture) at Netlify? Being able to have honest 1:1s with my manager and seeing results come from it. On top of that, every Netlifolk has an education budget per year to spend on books, courses and webinars to further their professional development.

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LaunchDarkly

JUNE 12, 2020

Our guests today are two superbly experienced front end engineers, and with several books, and many, many talks between them. We have Rebecca Murphey, senior technical lead at Indeed.com, and Ben Vinegar, VP of engineering at Century. The technical project manager role was actually pretty new. Worked there.

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James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

We have a bunch of engineers who dont have the XP mindset. This is a matter of changing organizational culture, and organizational culture isnt easy to change. Our engineering managers are at the forefront of that effort. This is a big cultural shift! We need to bring them on board, too. Well, in theory.

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