James Shore

AUGUST 19, 2024

Now it also covers the advanced titles—Staff Engineer for the engineer track and three Engineering Manager titles for the management track. We still need to add Principal Engineer for the engineer track, and specialty skills, but this is enough for a foundation. Verdict: Jury’s still out on this one.

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Honeycomb

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Instead of using a managed service, we’ve chosen to build expertise in-house, treating outages as unscheduled learning opportunities rather than reasons to fear Kafka. In the words of our platform engineering manager, Ben Hartshorne, Kafka is the “beating heart” of Honeycomb, powering our 99.99% ingest availability SLO.

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CircleCI

JANUARY 6, 2020

In this series, we pulled aside folks from across our engineering department to talk about confidence. From the technical executives to folks on the ground in engineering, management and site reliability, we wanted to know what “confidence” meant to them, and how it had changed over the course of their careers.

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CircleCI

MARCH 31, 2020

Although this post is written from my point of view of as an Engineering Manager, the practices described and templates linked are valuable for anyone on a remote team: they are the result of collaboration, ideas, and retrospective takeaways from people throughout our Engineering organization. Maximize your one-on-ones.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

APRIL 27, 2020

You have previously been a Senior Engineering Manager at a tech giant, Google and now you are with Citadel, a top company in the financial space. As in how different has your experience been working in the engineering teams of two different industries (Tech and FinTech)? You learn a thing best by teaching it to others.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

OCTOBER 19, 2021

If you ask an engineer to show how they operate the application in production, they will likely show containers and operational dashboards—not unlike any other software service. but to reference concrete tooling used today in order to ground what could otherwise be a somewhat abstract exercise. Foundational Infrastructure Layers.

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Kentik

JULY 16, 2018

When we started building our platform, Kentik Detect® , we went through an exercise of evaluating open source form libraries to see if they would fit our use cases.

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CircleCI

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

This interview replaces a take-home exercise which we used in the past, and allows us more standardized evaluations. Technical interview: We now partner with a company that specialises in technical interviewing to conduct the technical assessment for all candidates and all roles. Interview flow for Staff level roles and above.

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Tandem

JANUARY 26, 2021

Mercedes is one of our Engineering Managers, and Cain recently joined the Engineering team. Together, they’ll answer your questions about interviewing at Tandem by walking you through the hiring process for software engineers: from the job description, to the coding challenge, to the final interview.

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Modus Create

AUGUST 24, 2021

Trish Khoo , Engineering Manager at Octopus Deploy, had this to say about writing tests: “The more effort I put into testing the product conceptually at the start of the process, the less effort I had to put into manually testing the product at the end because fewer bugs would emerge as a result.” ” — Trish .

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Apiumhub

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Your feedback generates bugs in production by Eli Maruenda Joya – Engineering Manager at Holaluz.com, Inma Navas Peña – Software Engineer at MANGO. Communication in organizations is vital. Feedback is a very powerful tool to grow collectively and individually.

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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

I said, If we had the best product engineering organization in the world, what would it look like? I walked them through an exercise right there on the CEOs dining room table. Imagine were the best product engineering org in the world. If you did this exercise with your leadership team, youd probably get different answers.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JANUARY 22, 2020

Which is a very you know nerdy word, and appeals to me as an engineer, and all that stuff. But you don’t hack leadership, that’s like hacking exercising. So I discovered that what I was working on after a while, was the first word I came on was hacks, like leadership hacks. Michael: No, I didn’t.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JANUARY 22, 2020

Which is a very you know nerdy word, and appeals to me as an engineer, and all that stuff. But you don’t hack leadership, that’s like hacking exercising. So I discovered that what I was working on after a while, was the first word I came on was hacks, like leadership hacks. Michael: No, I didn’t.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

2 What is your pro tip for HR professionals/engineering managers who are currently dealing with the hiring freeze and anticipating a huge deluge of vacancies next year? Rado: Engineering managers should be able to do “more-with-less” in the coming year.

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David Walsh

DECEMBER 29, 2020

It will start with getting more exercise; I think that will help on both physical and mental fronts. Improve Product Manager and Engineering Manager Skills. I want to know the engineering side, the product and economic side, the history, the future, and absolutely everything I can learn about it. Let me know!

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The other thing I noticed actually about engineers, and engineering management as a discipline is engineers and engineering managers think that somehow they’re unique in these management responsibilities. The first exercise I have people do is they’ll get into pairs.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Will’s book, An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management. Marcus: Will, you are a manager now. You have been an engineer, you’ve got a marvelous book out called An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management. When you were little, did you want to be a manager? November 4-7, 2019.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

But part of the pre-work, I asked everyone to make a list of what you think what your products are and just list what the products are, and this is where they had in the high 20s, maybe low 30s, and we did a number of exercises beginning with that list. All hands so to speak on. Well, you have that flexibility.

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LaunchDarkly

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

And then after a brief stint as a software engineering manager at a small startup I went on to work at Google, where I joined this new nascent team called Site Reliability Engineering, and that teams goal is to be, as a previous speaker mentioned, the master of disaster for Google. So we had to do all that on the fly.

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