TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Expensify founder and CEO David] Barrett, a self-proclaimed alpha geek and lifelong software engineer, was actually Red Swoosh’s last engineering manager, hired after the failure of his first project, iGlance.com , a P2P push-to-talk program that couldn’t compete against Skype.

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2022

Fostering a healthy engineering culture. Charity and James also talked about how the right organizational culture fosters a ——and, combined with the right tooling (aka observability)—the teams that embrace both generally lead the pack when it comes to higher performance. . Engineering Manager, Slack . “It’s

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Netlify

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Improving our data pipeline. Automating our enterprise billing: we need it to be manageable while providing us a lot of different ways to sell at the enterprise level. How to provide data retention for the busiest collections on our build platform. Being able to have honest 1:1s with my manager and seeing results come from it.

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LaunchDarkly

JUNE 12, 2020

Prior to taking on the tactical project manager role, I was in a senior engineering manager role. The technical project manager role was actually pretty new. But as the engineering manager there, I grew a team from zero. A team of me to a team of about somewhere between 20 and 25 software engineers.

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James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

We have a bunch of engineers who dont have the XP mindset. This is a matter of changing organizational culture, and organizational culture isnt easy to change. Our engineering managers are at the forefront of that effort. This is a big cultural shift! On the X axis, we have months of data.

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Honeycomb

JULY 14, 2023

Perhaps surprisingly, those two trends don’t usually translate to making a startup VP of Engineering job one of the most lucrative in the Bay Area. Honeycomb has long taken a principled approach to compensation and sticks to relatively narrow comp bands shaped by industry data from similar stage companies.

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