InfoQ Culture Methods

DECEMBER 11, 2024

As a software engineer or individual contributor, the next step in your career can be to become a principal engineer. The path to becoming a principal engineer at companies can feel unclear, which can inhibit individual engineering careers.

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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.

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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.

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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. One thing that we do as a team, we have three times a week, we have a virtual breakfast.

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James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

Software engineering productivity cant be measured. Its a big spreadsheet which describes each title in our engineering organization, along with the skills required to reach each title. For example, Associate Software Engineers are hired fresh out of university. This is a big cultural shift!

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