Engineering Team Management
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Choose Well-known Technology news.ycombinator.com
A rephrasing of the above advice. “Choose the technology: 1. You know in and out, and are immediately productive with; 2. Which is sure to be around in 5-7 years, preferably 10-15; 3. For which you are comfortable hiring the next 15 engineers.”
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“Company I've worked for had manager who tried to ship features over the weekend with a ragtag team of developers who… news.ycombinator.com
Tactics of hustling managers, and how the company reacting to that kind of manager makes or break a good place to work.
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Responsibility vs. accountability news.ycombinator.com
The biggest difference between manager (accountable) and engineers (responsible): “'Bad things' happen for the person accountable, whereas the person responsible can move on to the next project.”
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Examples of harassments news.ycombinator.com
How a jealous boss, who felt either betrayed or ridiculed, bullied a capable employee to force him out. Don't be that kind of asshole boss.
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L8-L10 salaries at AWS news.ycombinator.com
A reference point to what $M+ compensation packages looks like.
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Some reasons why enterprise software is good and maybe even fun news.ycombinator.com
The majority of us will not build the next unicorn: we statically have a better chance to build enterprise software. The twist? It might even be more interesting than you expect.
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) - At one point, even with the most unselfish of intentions, your attempts to elevate the culture might stall. It is not fair, but it's probably the time to leave.
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Colleague is leaving. How to investigate what went wrong? news.ycombinator.com
“Most of the time people leave bosses, not the job or the company.” And why you're unlikely to get any substantial insights from exit interviews. (source)
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Meaningful differences that makes Google offices more productive news.ycombinator.com
“The people are smarter, your manager (and their manager) cares a lot about you and it's easy to move.”
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What are the signs that you have a great manager? news.ycombinator.com
“The irony is that you don't really notice a great manager.”
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“That's usually about the time I nope right out of the interview” news.ycombinator.com
Bad signs of a CTO trying to recruit an engineering manager, or the perils of not believing in hierarchies.
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Going from Developer to Manager. What should I know or learn? news.ycombinator.com
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Executives ratify decisions made on the spot news.ycombinator.com
Tolstoy's thesis to business.
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Google's usage of OKRs news.ycombinator.com
OKR grades are public, but not used for promotion. It was never taken very seriously there.
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On VC funding and huge growth news.ycombinator.com
“Startups need an exit strategy. (…) The idea is to raise money fast, hire experienced people for ancillary services and develop the application in a way so that it is able to hold up till IPO. Defer all costs for post IPO.” So from this angle, the only reason to join a startup…
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If I Close My Data Centers, What About the People/Jobs Lost? news.ycombinator.com
F50's data centers being migrated to commercial cloud provider. But what about the people currently doing legacy stuff? The answer: retrain.
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Things to look for when hiring remote workers news.ycombinator.com
“1. You have to adhere to employment laws within the country you're hiring from; 2. To employ someone full time, many countries require you to have a legally entity within that country; 3. Prioritize countries where we have the most interest; 4. Keep a healthy timezone overlap…
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Best project management practices in 2018? news.ycombinator.com
There is no silver bullet.
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You have only 4 options news.ycombinator.com
“1. Change you; 2. Change the other; 3. Fly; 4. Stay and suffer.” A more concise way of saying the same thing as above.
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You need to be this tall to use (micro) services news.ycombinator.com
Do not chase the hype. Yet. Micro-services only brings value past a certain infrastructure and organization size. This is a list of stuff you should focus on before bringing micro-services to the mix.
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