Engineering Team

“Cultural fit, I think, matters way more now than ever before, when, like, the ability to be a great engineer is, like, much easier than ever before. And so it's, like, teaching these people how to be human, maybe a little throwback to etiquette school, but als…”

“I think that is going to become a standard part of building the open source project. So what you guys are doing with is it deep wiki? That's awesome. I think though that it's going to become a standard for teams to build out the wiki as they're doing the devel…”

“There's two ways to make engineering teams more productive. You let them do more in the amount of time that they spend coding, or you give them more time to spend coding. And the answer is you have to do both.”

“We'll get there in three years. Yeah. You just need to be like a really strong early adopter.”

“So for a while we'd sort of had this point of view of like you're writing code, do whatever you like and have whatever tools you want. And as the tools improved, we had come more and more sure of what works for us and what we don't like. And so we've been Sort…”

“We are building more software than ever, and we need the humans and no one is reducing their engineering team.”

“Every customer, in addition to having a forward deployed owner, also has a member of the regular engineering team as an assigned person. So every engineer on the team has a deep appreciation, understanding of what we're building, who it's for, why we're buildi…”

“Most teams can move faster, right? So And also given what we know about cognitive load, not all speed gains are necessarily good. Right. Or the upside is going to be kind of limited, right? Once you hit kind of a certain point, most people are not even near th…”

“If you're pitching to the engineering teams, typically they'll go, they will underestimate what you have built and go, we could build that every single situation.”

“You can actually get much further, which a lot less of that than you, than people think is my experience. And you're actually better off doing that because you sort of retain people's autonomy. You retain people's ability to sort of, you know, come up with sol…”

“So yes, the breakdown is roughly half of our engineering team is on the platform, and half is on the is assigned to specific products.”

“When I think about marketing pages, like these, like, really important websites, your, even your main.com, I don't see a world where you need to be having your engineering teams do that anymore. I believe that that, that really will get solved by software.”

“दो हजार पंद्रह में हम वास्तव में बहुत तेजी से बढ़ रहे थे और हम sales team को nuket कर रहे थे और sales का पहिया engineering के पहिये से तेज घूम रहा था. हमने जरूरत मताबिक engineers को hire नहीं किया”

“Now, to do that well, you need about half your time to be out of the building. Most PMs spend about 95% of their time facing engineering. And zero to fives talking to customers and being out in the world.”

“The bad ones create a scenario where engineering doesn't feel like they have a vote in what gets built. And the, this 29% time that we're talking about here is one of my countermeasures to that, in that an engineering culture where they don't feel they can inv…”

“Something I believe pretty strongly is that teams should generally be one manager to like six to eight engineers. I think this is a really useful sizing mechanism.”

“I think that, like, the strongest lever that you can pull to really drive high-functioning engineering teams is engineering ownership of outcomes.”

“Fundamentally, the rule of thumb I use here is your team is your unit of concurrency. And so the number of work streams you want to be solving at the same time is how many teams you need. And so the more things you're trying to do at the same time, the more te…”

“So your unit of measurement for health is at the team level versus the individual level, especially as you scale.”

“I think the most common failure I see is people failing to teach Their engineering teams or their product and engineering teams, how to think about the business they are in.”

“The best part is, is like really early on when you're doing the designs and you're about to hand it off to engineering, get like a good sense of what that deadline would be. And then let the engineering team work with you to alter the designs if it's not fitti…”

“Between two to five, you still get time to code about 70 When you get to five to 10, you only have less than 50%, and beyond 10, you probably won't really have time to code”

“I've had this come up a few times when I've interviewed product folks that they'll speak down on their counterparts or say that, you know, the reason they weren't able to meet deadlines or push product in the right way was because of The engineering team or be…”

“The fastest way to lose credibility with the team, with the engineering team, as a product manager, is suggesting something that sounds simple, but that takes three years.”

“Usually where we start to make sense is like, I would say, 20 to 30 developers is the minimum team size where, where you start to make sense. And the more you're outsourcing and the more distributed your teams are you know, that means there's less like person …”

“I think that a lot of engineering sometimes feels like parallel play, where it's, like, People, they aren't really working together exactly. They're kind of each working on their own project separately, and maybe they give each other code reviews, but making y…”

“The impact, the positive impact on the team when you get rid of that negative energy is always shocking to me. Because it's always more than you think it's gonna be. Like, the team is always so much happier and healthier and therefore more productive once they…”

“Sometimes what people tend to do is they have a security team. And the security team is somehow isolated from the engineering team. And so what do you have is you don't have alignment of incentives because if you have security engineers or if you have security…”

“I think that prizing certain teams at companies, so it used to be sales teams, now it's engineering teams, is I think prizing certain teams is actually a coded way of prizing certain races and genders.”

“I think the future would be an ability for you to build out engineering teams wherever you want, and not just restrict yourself to the Bay Area, and a good common connective tissue that makes sure that things don't break because of bad communication or because…”

“Great product manager is like the oil that makes everything go well. And bad product management is the sand that makes everything stop.”

“And so I spent a couple of years there just when the engineering team was like five, six people most of the time.”