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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

Honeycomb

Nonetheless, I think it’s useful to share what I can about my experience in the hope that it might encourage others to seriously consider this role, especially those from backgrounds, identities, and genders poorly represented in the VP of Engineering ranks today. The whole tech industry would benefit from more perspectives in this role.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

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At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. We’ve doubled the size of the company this year, with growth on all fronts: engineering, product, design, marketing, sales. Marketing and DevRel. No Q4 code freezes for us.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. We’ve doubled the size of the company this year, with growth on all fronts: engineering, product, design, marketing, sales. Marketing and DevRel. No Q4 code freezes for us.

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Why did file sharing drive so much startup innovation?

TechCrunch

Framed by Kalanick as his “revenge business” after his previous P2P startup Scour was sued into oblivion for copyright infringement, Red Swoosh would be the precursor for Expensify’s future culture and ethos. Which begs the question then: What are the “file-sharing” markets today that these sorts of individuals congregate around?

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

Honeycomb

For example, right as I was transitioning into this role, I did inhumane things with my own schedule to quickly build out our SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance programs at the request of our go-to-market leaders.