Mike Curtis

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Jan 2, 2019
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Mike Curtis: Engineering managers' main duty is enabling peak alignment moments
“This is, like, one of the most core fundamental premises behind engineering management, is, like, understanding the person. What motivates them? What are their skills? What are they trying to develop? That magic moment that I talked about, like, being able to …”
Mike Curtis Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 26:49 a16z Podcast | Engineering Intent
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Disclosure
Mike Curtis: Airbnb holds business leaders accountable for software bugs
“The way we've been thinking about it and the way that we try to do it now is that the business leaders who are responsible for furthering the business also have goals that are associated with bugs, performance, like all the things, like systems science.”
Mike Curtis Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 23:49 a16z Podcast | Engineering Intent
Jan 2, 2019
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Mike Curtis: 10x engineering output stems from alignment, not static ability
“My thinking on that is slightly different in that I think that, you know, people have periods of time where they can be, like, producing X, what their peers might be, and it's that magical moment when they're aligned with the right project, with the right skil…”
Mike Curtis Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 26:09 a16z Podcast | Engineering Intent
Jan 2, 2019
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Mike Curtis: Engineering teams cannot hire their way out of technical debt
“And like you can't hire your way out of that. Every, every person that you hire just ends up becoming less and less productive.”
Mike Curtis Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 24:31 a16z Podcast | Engineering Intent
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Disclosure
Airbnb open-sources all internal data pipeline and analysis infrastructure
“We regularly open source our own internal technologies, particularly around data, like everything we do from managing data pipelines to how we do data analysis, we pushed out to open source.”
Mike Curtis Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:12 a16z Podcast | Engineering Intent
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