James Shore

APRIL 27, 2024

Enough that I don’t do any coding myself, and the managers that report to me don’t have time to do much either.) What I’m really doing is changing the engineering culture at OpenSesame. Culture doesn’t change easily. However, they have enough experience to take a strong peer leadership role in their teams.

Software Engineering 75

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James Shore

AUGUST 19, 2024

(PDF) Culture Changes The purpose of the new career ladder is to help change the engineering culture at OpenSesame. The new ladder focuses on teamwork, peer leadership, and maintainable code. We still need to add Principal Engineer for the engineer track, and specialty skills, but this is enough for a foundation.

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Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

I was curious about moving up the engineering management ladder eventually, but I assumed a VP opportunity would be out of reach for a long time, if ever. Camille Fournier’s The Manager’s Path is one good exception to this. The post On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP appeared first on Honeycomb.

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Gitprime

MAY 30, 2019

Making sure that leadership teams are in the loop and aligned and ready to answer questions before the rest of the individual contributors get the information has been super helpful for us.”. And the same goes for distributed managers, as well—particularly when an organization is starting to go remote.

Engineering 75

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James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

Its not about literally being the best product engineering org in the world. If you did this exercise with your leadership team, youd probably get different answers. So were looking for people who have peer leadership skills, who are great at teamwork , who will take ownership and make decisions on their own.

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

One thing that stood out to me this year was how much our leadership team went out of their way to make sure folks felt taken care of. At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. No Q4 code freezes for us.

Part-Time VPE 59

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

One thing that stood out to me this year was how much our leadership team went out of their way to make sure folks felt taken care of. At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. No Q4 code freezes for us.

Part-Time VPE 52

Part-Time VPE Technical Review Engineering Software Review 52