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Honeycomb
JULY 12, 2023
This post is part of a short series about my experience in the VP of Engineering role at Honeycomb. In February of 2020, I was promoted from Director of Engineering to Honeycomb’s first VP of Engineering. The whole tech industry would benefit from more perspectives in this role.
James Shore
AUGUST 19, 2024
Back in April , I posted the new career ladder I was planning to introduce at OpenSesame, which I’ve joined as VP of Engineering. We rolled it out in July, so now’s a good time to share what we’ve learned so far. PDF) Culture Changes The purpose of the new career ladder is to help change the engineering culture at OpenSesame.
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Honeycomb
AUGUST 3, 2023
The diagram below is one effort to identify more granular labels that I assembled for an internal meeting. Business stakeholders then get handed a clearer tradeoff: do we invest now, or do we decide meeting our 99.9% Rework Rework or refactoring is probably the category most associated with “tech debt” in software engineering.
Honeycomb
JANUARY 5, 2021
At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. I believe this human-centered approach is a big part of what’s helped us attract so many amazing new hires. — Alex Hidalgo (@ahidalgosre) December 24, 2020. So many wins in 2020.
Honeycomb
JANUARY 5, 2021
At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. I believe this human-centered approach is a big part of what’s helped us attract so many amazing new hires. — Alex Hidalgo (@ahidalgosre) December 24, 2020. So many wins in 2020.
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.
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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