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Changing how we change

Xebia

But, as soon as they walk out of the conference room and are “offstage,” they vocalize their true feelings and opinions to trusted colleagues. . These groups might mirror people’s roles – accounting, HR, sales, etc – or could be informal, reflecting friendships and other social connections.

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Article: Virtual Panel: How to Become a Principal Engineer

InfoQ Culture Methods

As a software engineer or individual contributor, the next step in your career can be to become a principal engineer. The path to becoming a principal engineer at companies can feel unclear, which can inhibit individual engineering careers. By Ben Linders, Joy Ebertz, Pablo Fredrikson, Charlotte de Jong Schouwenburg

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On Not Being a Cog in the Machine

Honeycomb

It seemed tailored to what actual work would be rather than what people aspired it to be like if they wanted to boast about it at a conference. The more time I spend in this industry, the more interested I get about that social aspect of our systems. A framing of systems as being both social and technical ( sociotechnical! )

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A Commitment to Diversity: Reflections on GHC

LaunchDarkly

Upon reflecting on the conference, and my experience now two months into my first software engineering job at LaunchDarkly, I wanted to share a smattering of thoughts with you as a woman in tech. At LaunchDarkly I have experienced similar intellectual honesty, one of the many facets of our outstanding engineering culture.

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Principal Engineer: role & responsibilities

Apiumhub

Alvaro Garcia – Principal Software Engineer at Apiumhub, Ruggero Tonelli – Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Netquest, Felix Kerger – Principal Developer Advocate at King, Corrado Calzoni – Principal Software Engineer at Roche, Stephan Lagraulet – Head of Engineering.

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What it’s like to be a backend engineer at Netlify

Netlify

People often end up pairing when there’s a need, or a desire for social contact, and sometimes these turn into huge group sessions that last for hours when nobody watches time , with everybody doing their thing and working almost as if we were sitting right next to each other. I love all of our social Slack rooms.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

In 1988, Berkley scientists David A Patterson, Garth Gibson, and Randy H Katz presented the paper A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) [3] at the ACM SIGMOD Conference. He realized that such enthusiasm could not surface in his company, because the culture did not value good engineering. This is lean.