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IT leaders: What’s the gameplan as tech badly outpaces talent?

CIO

MARCH 13, 2025

Hiring AI talent US IT staffing firm Motion Recruitment found that AI engineers saw over a 12% growth in salaries compared to a year ago, and mid-level workers saw a 20% increase. And with all the competition for AI talent, some companies are taking a different approach to recruiting. Tell us a story,' he says.

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Scaling Organizational Empathy With Box’s VPE, Saminda Wijegunawardena

Gitprime

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” 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. Create intimacy for both distributed and co-located teams.

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Honeycomb Welcomes New VP Engineering

Honeycomb

MARCH 6, 2020

I am delighted to announce that we have a new VP of engineering: our own Emily Nakashima , formerly director of engineering (formerly manager, formerly engineer). First, I’d write a post if we had hired a new VP of engineering, so I should write one about having grown one from within.

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Webinars

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Leading Remote and Distributed Engineering Teams – Top Takeaways from the Panel

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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Scaling Engineering Teams from 5 to 500 and Beyond

Gitprime

MARCH 13, 2019

Every high-growth engineering organization eventually needs to address the challenges around restructuring teams, maintaining a productive culture, building resilient systems, and adjusting engineering processes. The senior engineer is there to support, guide, and make sure the project goes well.

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Honeycomb Welcomes New VP Engineering

Honeycomb

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

I am delighted to announce that we have a new VP of engineering: our own Emily Nakashima , formerly director of engineering (formerly manager, formerly engineer). First, I’d write a post if we had hired a new VP of engineering, so I should write one about having grown one from within.

Engineering

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DevOps vs Site Reliability Engineering: Concepts, Practices, and Roles

Altexsoft

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

In the words of Ben Treynor Sloss, Google’s VP of engineering who coined the very term SRE , “it’s what happens when you ask a software engineer to design an operation function.”. Such end-to-end continuity is paramount to reduce time to market and make rapid changes. A DevOps lifecycle. Source: Medium. No more silos.

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Anything But Tech Debt

Honeycomb

AUGUST 3, 2023

So-called “tech debt” could amount to more than two thirds of the different types of work an engineer might touch , if you apply the label broadly. Of course all of this work could make up a significant portion of a responsible engineer’s quarter or year. Struggling to negotiate time for tech debt?

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Introducing Engineering Management to a Growing Organization

Gitprime

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Nightingale recently sat down with GitPrime’s CEO, Travis Kimmel , for an episode on Software Engineering Radio. Their conversation covered everything from how startups should think about management and how to hire for it, to “troubleshooting” management. You usually only have one VP of engineering,” Nightingale says.

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AoAD2 Chapter 6: Invest in Change

James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

If not, you can hire consultants. Continuous improvement is an integral part of Agile, so shouldn’t you kaizen your way to Agile in the first place? If you have a document-oriented culture, kaizen will help you streamline your documents. If you have a blame-oriented culture, it will help you place blame more accurately.

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The Rise of the Front-End Developer

LaunchDarkly

JUNE 12, 2020

On May 21, for the Test in Production Meetup on Twitch , Yoz Grahame, Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly, moderated a panel discussion featuring Rebecca Murphey, Senior Technical PM at Indeed, and Ben Vinegar, VP of Engineering at Sentry. I’ve honestly only gone larger and larger over the course of my career.

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The Ultimate Workplace Productivity Guide You Should Read to Get Things Done

Codegiant

JULY 8, 2021

This means out of the nine-hour shift, you’ll find an average employee being productive for less than three hours. And after you successfully measure your workplace and employee productivity, if you find it to be extremely low, then you need to take action and do something about it. That’s insane. What is Workplace Productivity?

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The Ultimate Workplace Productivity Guide You Should Read to Get Things Done

Codegiant

JULY 8, 2021

This means out of the nine-hour shift, you’ll find an average employee being productive for less than three hours. And after you successfully measure your workplace and employee productivity, if you find it to be extremely low, then you need to take action and do something about it. That’s insane.

Weak Development Team

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The Ultimate Workplace Productivity Guide You Should Read to Get Things Done

Codegiant

JULY 8, 2021

This means out of the nine-hour shift, you’ll find an average employee being productive for less than three hours. And after you successfully measure your workplace and employee productivity, if you find it to be extremely low, then you need to take action and do something about it. That’s insane.

Weak Development Team

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Investing in Career Growth & Team Development – Advice From 3 Engineering Leaders

Gitprime

AUGUST 15, 2019

As engineering managers and leaders, our job of course is to help our teams deliver value to the organization and its customers. Yet from a higher level, our role is to ensure that both engineers and teams continue to grow and develop. FIND OTHER OBJECTIVES TO COLLECT ALONG THE WAY.

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The Best Product Engineering Org in the World

James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

This is a talk about what you do, as VP of Engineering, when somebody asks for the impossible. I said, If we had the best product engineering organization in the world, what would it look like? Imagine were the best product engineering org in the world. We have a bunch of engineers who dont have the XP mindset.

Engineering

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 2: Doing the Job

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.” Being a good VP requires not getting lost in the weeds and risking losing sight of the bigger picture, even when it feels like there is a tantalizing opportunity for fast impact.

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CTO Universe

IT leaders: What’s the gameplan as tech badly outpaces talent?

Scaling Organizational Empathy With Box’s VPE, Saminda Wijegunawardena

Honeycomb Welcomes New VP Engineering

Webinars

Leading Remote and Distributed Engineering Teams – Top Takeaways from the Panel

Scaling Engineering Teams from 5 to 500 and Beyond

Honeycomb Welcomes New VP Engineering

DevOps vs Site Reliability Engineering: Concepts, Practices, and Roles

Anything But Tech Debt

Introducing Engineering Management to a Growing Organization

AoAD2 Chapter 6: Invest in Change

The Rise of the Front-End Developer

The Ultimate Workplace Productivity Guide You Should Read to Get Things Done

The Ultimate Workplace Productivity Guide You Should Read to Get Things Done

The Ultimate Workplace Productivity Guide You Should Read to Get Things Done

Investing in Career Growth & Team Development – Advice From 3 Engineering Leaders

The Best Product Engineering Org in the World

On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 2: Doing the Job

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