Honeycomb

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Someone who can work in both software engineering and automation. The more time I spend in this industry, the more interested I get about that social aspect of our systems. Initially, as a software developer, it’s tempting to frame the software as an independent system that you work on.

Technical Review 138

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LeanEssays

JULY 14, 2019

He describes “some surprising theories about software engineering”: I discuss these theories in terms of two fundamentally different development styles, the "cathedral" model of most of the commercial world versus the "bazaar" model of the Linux world. If you give software engineers manual work, their first instinct is to automate it.

Software Review 91

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LaunchDarkly

OCTOBER 26, 2018

It seems every week there is an article or blog post decrying the lack of women and people of color in software engineering, or on the other side defending the gap. At LaunchDarkly I have experienced similar intellectual honesty, one of the many facets of our outstanding engineering culture.

Hardware 67

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Apiumhub

AUGUST 29, 2019

Common patterns: what are the responsibilities of a Principal Engineer. He or she is one of the key faces of engineering and the company and enables awareness of the company while attracting talent and participating in tech conferences. Principal Engineer is in charge of driving engineering culture.

Engineering 32

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Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

VPs of Engineering often have a lot of influence over both company culture and policy, and the decisions our companies make ripple outside of the companies themselves. The whole tech industry would benefit from more perspectives in this role. However, we have fairly different backgrounds and skill sets.

Part-Time VPE 98

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JUNE 26, 2020

And for me, the big part of the success of growth was actually a step above the pure engineering architecture. It’s firstly rooted in the engineering culture because the first Netflix employees are great people. So I think I was becoming more of a generalist over time. I agree with you on the Python bit. Thanks for that.

Internet 154

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 2, 2022

I wouldn’t go as far as to say “tech industry therapy,” but Honeycomb leadership’s investment in good management is something I haven’t seen before. doesn’t turn any heads; everyone I’ve talked to has experience with what it takes to build a great organization (and product), from all different perspectives of the industry.

Engineering 52

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LaunchDarkly

JANUARY 14, 2020

That’s fascinating because it touches on so much of what you know and I’ve been in software engineering for a couple of decades now, a couple of days, decades, but sounds like couple of days. I do like that the industry seems to be getting better at management. As well we’re kind of learning from the industry.

Weak Development Team 10

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James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

Software engineering productivity cant be measured. The question of measuring productivity is a famous one, and the best minds in the industry have concluded it cant be done. Its a big spreadsheet which describes each title in our engineering organization, along with the skills required to reach each title.

Engineering 141

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LaunchDarkly

JUNE 12, 2020

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. All focused on trying to level up Indeed’s front end engineering capabilities. The technical project manager role was actually pretty new. Ben Vinegar: Yeah.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Development Engineering 52

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. Is there friction?

Part-Time VPE 98

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Honeycomb

MAY 12, 2025

On the self-regulation point, I can’t emphasize enough how much the tech industry has managed to externalize the burden of learning and keeping up with things onto its workers. Sabbaticals like this are a smart way to highlight these issues without needing to lose employees to burnout to discover them.

.Net 52

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