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A survey of how companies deal with incidents today, and a peek into the best practices of the future.
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Getting the timing of platform teams right, funding them, and the platform team mindset
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Caching, multi-tenancy, E2E tests, and database cutovers. Issue 1.
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A framework for hiring an EM at a tech company, and an overview of how Big Tech does it
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The best time to prepare for promotions is well before they are due. Advice to get ready, and a reality check on how promotions work.
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A survey of how tech projects run across the industry highlights Scrum being absent from Big Tech. Why is this, and are there takeaways others should t…
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Bay Area compensation ceilings moving up, Big Tech responding swiftly to the heated market, and out-of-cycle raises happening already
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We are in the most heated tech hiring market of all time. Here’s what you need to do and what companies do which are still growing.
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The change that shaped the engineering culture for years to come, and my take on Platform teams
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Handling down-leveling when switching jobs, and getting ahead of it as an engineering manager.
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A checklist for engineering managers, business case for a platform team, project lead expectations, performance reviews and others
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The #1 newsletter for engineering managers and senior engineers on Substack. Written by former engineering manager and senior engineer Gergely Orosz (p…
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