Engineering Why Firing Brilliant Assholes Is Required to Build a Great Engineering Culture SimpleGeo Co-founder Joe Stump on the challenges of engineering leadership and why attitude trumps talent more often than not.
People & Culture How Stripe Built One of Silicon Valley’s Best Engineering Teams Greg Brockman, the founding engineer at Stripe, talks about how to construct your hiring pipeline to maximize talent.
People & Culture How Etsy Grew their Number of Female Engineers by Almost 500% in One Year CTO Kellan Elliott-McCrea shares the strategy Etsy used to get more female engineers interested in joining the company.
Management Unlocking the Power of Stable Teams with Twitter’s SVP of Engineering Chris Fry, former SVP Engineering at Twitter, talks about how forging strong teams is vital to building a long-lasting company.
Management Hyper-Growth Done Right - Lessons From the Man Who Scaled Engineering at Dropbox and Facebook Aditya Agarwal, VP of Engineering at Dropbox, talks about how he was able to scale their engineering team while maintaining productivity.
Engineering What I Learned As Pandora’s First Data Scientist Gordon Rios was Pandora's first official data scientist. Today, he's seen how a healthy, productive data team is grown and operates.
People & Culture How to Make Engineering Interns Effective for Your Startup Startup Sift Science relies on its interns to hit its goals. Here's how it designed its program to produce incredible and effective engineers.
Starting Up The 5 Early Mistakes That Almost Killed This Founder’s Startup — and How He Survived Ranker CEO Clark Benson readily admits that he made mistakes that almost destroyed the company. Here, he lists what not to do.
Engineering The One Cost Engineers and Product Managers Don't Consider Kris Gale, former VP Engineering at Yammer, on the pernicious problem and ramifications of complexity cost.