CircleCI

MARCH 11, 2021

Forbes partnered with market research company Statista to identify the up-and-coming companies liked best by their employees in their second-annual ranking of America’s best startup employers. A few years ago, the engineering team at CircleCI had doubled year over year and became more globally distributed.

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Datavail

APRIL 6, 2022

The first step is to select the business capabilities and strategies that are most important to you, and then focus on the underlying technology that supports them. It can be tempting for companies to go with the latest, greatest technologies when modernizing their legacy applications. Establishing an IT culture.

Azure 52

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Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

.* I understand why: the stakes for public comment become higher as you move up the ladder, every social media post has the potential to be interpreted as a subtweet or request, and your highest-priority work is often deeply entangled with confidential company and personnel matters.

Part-Time VPE 98

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

It is hard for an enterprise infrastructure software company to create simple products. As an engineering culture we always want to provide unlimited flexibility to open up a world of opportunity. “so simple that a 10 year old can demo it”. Watch this: Enterprise Software that is so easy a 10 year old can demo it.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Often, companies want to combine improvements to their products with improvements to their operating model and ways of working. In companies with many teams and many millions of lines of code, including a lot of legacy, there are endless things that can be improved in the product, software, and organization. The Strategy Cycle.

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Honeycomb

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

We build teams hoping to do that 1-5% and giving little attention to the rest, then wonder how to fix that culture. It’s related to something cognitive engineers call the context gap. In short, all solutions and strategies we have to solve a problem are contextual and depend on the environment and situation you’re in.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

If you like the ideas in the post, then why not come and join me at Navico and help us to build a highly-innovative engineering culture and a brilliant place to work. Make Your Organisation Irresistible to Software Engineers The easiest and cheapest way to hire good engineers is to let them come to you.

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LaunchDarkly

MARCH 26, 2020

As we are adapting our processes and strategy at LaunchDarkly, it’s moments like these that you truly see the team come together. It also shares some lessons we’ve learned that we think will help other companies and leaders facing similar challenges. It takes a village. This is all our normal process. Have any tips to share?

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 3, 2023

Of course all of this work could make up a significant portion of a responsible engineer’s quarter or year. The right communication strategy can help While many organizations struggle to prioritize all non-feature work, a few types of work seem to generate the most internal disagreement. Struggling to negotiate time for tech debt?

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering Software Engineering Tools 98

Honeycomb

MAY 14, 2024

Challenge Amperity required an observability partner to facilitate their transition into the modern engineering era as their previous tooling struggled to support their growth strategy. That’s the power of Amperity’s customer data platform (CDP), and the company has been driving customer data innovation for nearly a decade.

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Gitprime

MAY 30, 2019

These include how to counter isolation and silos by keeping teams in the loop, how to handle time zone differences, what to look for in the hiring process, and onboarding strategies for remote engineers. Of course, communication strategies within a distributed team are shaped largely by time zones. And they mean everything.

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Altexsoft

MARCH 3, 2023

According to Deloitte research of 2022, 83 percent of “digitally maturing” companies reported using cross-functional teams. For this, companies need to carefully design their teams, set clear goals and processes, and cultivate the culture of mutual trust and communication between employees with different expertise.

Examples 52

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JUNE 26, 2020

This is your host Sachin and today I have with me Sergey Fedorov, The Director of Engineering at Netflix. As you all know, Netflix is a media services provider and a production company that most of us have been binge-watching content on for while now. Welcome, Sergey! We’re delighted to have you as a guest on our podcast today.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

MAY 9, 2024

Here are some key factors to consider: Company size and hiring volume: Large enterprises with high-volume hiring needs may require a comprehensive platform with features like automated candidate screening and talent pool management. While cost is a factor, focusing solely on the lowest price might not be the best strategy.

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 14, 2021

He then grabs our attention by telling us the scale of the opportunity (and a bit of name-dropping): When Intel wants to build a billion-dollar factory, they need a loan that is too big for any single lending company to take on, so the lenders form a syndicate that pools its resources to support a facility.

Software Engineering 52

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Strategic Tech

MAY 3, 2021

Then they give value to the companies in return, in the form of money or data. Perhaps the most important aspect of discovery is embedding it in your culture and making it a continuous activity for leaders and for makers. Businesses create products or services to solve the problems, needs, or wants of customers.

Software Review 52

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Honeycomb

JULY 14, 2023

Charity once said an off-hand sentence that became a mantra for my transition into the VP of Engineering role: “Directors run the company.” My priority number one had been to “run engineering well.” Early in my career, I had the experience of working for a company where everything felt broken but it wasn’t clear why.

Part-Time VPE 98

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

If every company is a technology company, then every healthy company must have a healthy relationship to technology. We hope that their answers will help companies to build their own strategies for digital transformation. We asked the CTOs how the companies prepared themselves for both old and new vulnerabilities.

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LeanEssays

JULY 14, 2019

The implications were clear: Perhaps in the end the open-source culture will triumph not because cooperation is morally right…. Open source was (and is) known to be a brutal but effective training ground for software engineers. Example: Google Another company learned the nature of ‘software debugging’ early in its life was Google.

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