How to Lead An Engineering Team During A Period of Hypergrowth
- Chris Slowe tl;dr: AMA with CTO at Reddit. He discusses his high level approach to various functions of a CTO, such as hiring, company values, testing. He also discusses the importance of mentorship for anyone seeking a leadership role.featured in #145
How I Survived Insane Hypergrowth at Airbnb
- Jonathon Golden tl;dr: Director of Product provides the following takeaways (1) Don’t just identify a problem, start fixing it by enlisting others (2) Understand the (ever-broadening) context (3) Confront challenges head-on (4) Everything changes all the time, get over it (5) It’s all about the EQ.featured in #145
How To Size And Assess Teams From An Eng Lead At Stripe, Uber and Digg
- Will Larson tl;dr: Larson shares his system for gauging size and state of engineering teams - ratios and frameworks to structuring team size, combining and spinning up teams, and assessing and accelerating team progress.featured in #144