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We’re beautiful snowflakes

Head of Engineering @ Forter

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• Amazing mission statementorganize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful

• Hard to iterate fast (process heavy)

• Incredible technologyMapReduce, Google FS etc.

• Awesome mission statementmake the world more open and connected

• Fast iterations, small teams

• Great technology (+ leftovers)PHP – I’m looking at you!

• Some lame mission statementmake more money than the church

• Fast iterations, small teams

• Great technology, at huge scale!

(your engineers)

Explicitly hire for: People who canprioritize &get things doneon their own

They focus on autonomy

Changing code -> …-> something breaks -> lack of trust-> slower cycle (process++)-> new department of [trust issue] -> still breaks

…

-> death (of happiness)

Changing code -> …-> something breaks -> quick release + retrospect-> automate/test stuff-> still breaks

-> quick release + retrospect-> automate/test stuff-> …

http://www.slideshare.net/HubSpot/the-hubspot-culture-code-creating-a-company-we-love http://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664

“ Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information

and make it universally accessible and useful.

WTF?

The last person to join the company is responsible to create a “starter kit” for the next one to join

VP SEO at TripAdvisor

http://luclevesque.com/post/15881999207/how-to-help-new-employees-be-rockstars-a-new-approach

Onboarding process for Google’s building blocks

Scaling your DNA

Scheduling time for non-urgent tasks

https://medium.com/life-at-obvious/3231f644a8b1

“ One day I will work for a company that does something like this. ”

https://github.com/EverythingMe/redash

http://randsinrepose.com/archives/bored-people-quit/

Junior Engineers Practice, practice, practice

Experienced Engineers Practice, lead, build trust

Veteran EngineersBecome an expert or pivot (+mentor as a Bar Raiser)

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