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CIO
MARCH 13, 2025
Gen AI-related job listings were particularly common in roles such as data scientists and data engineers, and in software development. To help address the problem, he says, companies are doing a lot of outsourcing, depending on vendors and their client engagement engineers, or sending their own people to training programs.
James Shore
JANUARY 10, 2025
Kent Beck concluded , Measure developer productivity? He says a measurement based approach generates relatively weak improvements and significant distortion of incentives. This is a talk about what you do, as VP of Engineering, when somebody asks for the impossible. They tend to be passionate, senior developers.
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Honeycomb
AUGUST 19, 2022
There was fresh momentum around the idea that engineering ICs should be able to progress up a dedicated technical career ladder—one that didn’t top out where management levels began, or push ICs on an up-or-out path into management. These constraints incentivized managers to think hard about how to retain and grow their best senior engineers.
Battery Ventures
MARCH 1, 2019
I once worked with a first-time CEO who needed to hire a VP of sales. He wanted to take charge of the hiring process—then I learned he was preparing by Googling “How to interview VP’s of sales.”. As a recruiter, I see too many companies jump into interviewing candidates before they know what they want.
Gitprime
SEPTEMBER 30, 2019
In this Perspectives in Engineering interview series, engineering leaders talk about how to build, coach, and scale world-class technology teams. Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” Create intimacy for both distributed and co-located teams.
Hacker Earth Developers Blog
AUGUST 13, 2020
In our fifth episode of Breaking 404 , we caught up with Monica Bajaj, Senior Director of Engineering, Workday to hear out the different biases that exist in tech roles across organizations and how difficult it can get for a woman to reach a senior position, especially in tech. Welcome, Monica! I never looked back.
Gitprime
MAY 30, 2019
Leaders of distributed engineering teams shouldn’t have to work up solutions to these problems from scratch. So we held a panel discussion with three of today’s top engineering leaders to discuss approaches and lessons learned in building, growing, and maintaining remote and distributed teams.
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