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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

Honeycomb

This post is part of a short series about my experience in the VP of Engineering role at Honeycomb. In February of 2020, I was promoted from Director of Engineering to Honeycomb’s first VP of Engineering. Happily, all these things turned out to be true and are still true to this day.

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An Engineering Manager’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities)

Honeycomb

Or, the small crisis with engineering management. In 2018, Honeycomb co-founder & CTO Charity Majors wrote a blog post titled, “An Engineer’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities).” When it was originally posted, back in 2018, it was timely. I’m also no longer primarily a line manager myself.

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Scaling Organizational Empathy With Box’s VPE, Saminda Wijegunawardena

Gitprime

Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” Therefore, empathy truly is within a manager’s domain. We started hiring remote folks, and we wanted to reduce that abstraction,” he says. And you can find ways to put them in the right roles.”.

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Introducing Engineering Management to a Growing Organization

Gitprime

Nightingale recently sat down with GitPrime’s CEO, Travis Kimmel , for an episode on Software Engineering Radio. Their conversation covered everything from how startups should think about management and how to hire for it, to “troubleshooting” management. Why management matters. Hiring leaders in your organization.

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Leading Remote and Distributed Engineering Teams – Top Takeaways from the Panel

Gitprime

Mailchimp’s engineering team is about 350 people, both distributed and remote, across the United States. Katie Womersley , VP of Engineering at Buffer. Buffer has a fully distributed engineering team—no home base, no hub, no offices. The engineering org is 35 people worldwide, covering nearly every time zone.

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Update on Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

Back in April , I posted the new career ladder I was planning to introduce at OpenSesame, which I’ve joined as VP of Engineering. We rolled it out in July, so now’s a good time to share what we’ve learned so far. PDF) Culture Changes The purpose of the new career ladder is to help change the engineering culture at OpenSesame.

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Anything But Tech Debt

Honeycomb

If you ever find yourself in an intractable debate on tech debt investments, I encourage you to try one of the more precise labels for the work you’d like to do. Sometimes, using a label that speaks directly to the business value of a type of work can do wonders to help both sides find a way to move forward.