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Article: Virtual Panel: How to Become a Principal Engineer

InfoQ Culture Methods

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. By Ben Linders, Joy Ebertz, Pablo Fredrikson, Charlotte de Jong Schouwenburg

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How to Scale Engineering Processes w/ Twitter's VP of Engineering

Dzone - DevOps

She joins a special livestream of the Dev Interrupted podcast to share her career journey, her strategies for sustainably scaling engineering teams and the three pillars of engineering processes. Her lessons on team management, building company culture, hiring and mentorship are not to be missed!

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How do you know DevOps is working?

CloudGeometry

It goes beyond just engineering culture and draining the backlog using harmonious collaboration. It matters just as much if you are writing code to update the network config or the website. Yet I believe there’s a new, more significant challenge ahead. There’s a feature arms race underway, and SaaS is fueling the fire.

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Building strong distributed teams, one pixel at a time

CircleCI

We bring different backgrounds, experiences, communication styles and collaboration preferences, and many more differences to the (virtual) table. When I joined CircleCI in 2018, the engineering team had been growing by 50 percent year over year, and also increasing in terms of geographical distribution.

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Forbes names CircleCI to America's Best Startup Employers list

CircleCI

A few years ago, the engineering team at CircleCI had doubled year over year and became more globally distributed. After all this growth, we were running into challenges around evolving our engineering culture. So we created an engineering competency matrix , which is woven into everything we do. Bringing people together.

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A Commitment to Diversity: Reflections on GHC

LaunchDarkly

At LaunchDarkly I have experienced similar intellectual honesty, one of the many facets of our outstanding engineering culture. There are a few aspects of our company culture that I believe contribute to this, namely empowering employees’ voices and blamelessness.

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Tips for Onboarding New Hires Remotely

LaunchDarkly

Traditionally, we do our first week “on-site” in our Oakland headquarters, which allows the new hire to feel out the culture of the company, meet colleagues, have water cooler chats, and my personal favorite, enjoy 1:1 walks along Lake Merritt. So, how do we recreate this experience virtually? What you can do for logistics.