Kellan Elliott-McCrea
13 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 6 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 17, 2023 by Kellan Elliott-McCrea · across every show →
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Aug 17, 2023 negative
Aug 17, 2023 negative
Elliott-McCrea: Google hires often struggle elsewhere because its internal systems don't replicate
“I think the canonical example of this is Google, by the way. I mean, I think that
Sort of in industry. Now we've kind of learned you hire people out of Google and they show up and they don't know how to operate because they've been such a determined high funct…”
Aug 17, 2023 negative
Elliott-McCrea: Etsy ran many bad experiments because internal statistical understanding was poor
“At Etsy, it was about understanding experimentation beyond just AB. Like, we were a very experimental heavy company, but we did a lot of bad experiments because our statistical understanding was poor.”
Aug 17, 2023
Aug 17, 2023 negative
Elliott-McCrea: Slow engineering execution always stems from leadership's lack of clarity
“When I'm going and having these conversations with leaders, and this is, I think the standard conversation most people have is it starts with leadership. If we're moving too slow, it always does. We've always believed that we've been more clear. We've created …”
Aug 17, 2023 negative
Aug 17, 2023
Elliott-McCrea: Company success does not always require high-quality engineering
“I think that one of the things we've realized is that there are actually multiple paths to success and multiple high quality ways to run a team. And that also that some companies
Path to success doesn't actually run through a high quality engineering.”
Aug 17, 2023 neutral
Elliott-McCrea: Dropbox historically avoided internal financial discussions
“At Dropbox, Dropbox didn't ever care to talk about money. And so understanding, like, let's go with the basic unit economics. How much does a gigabyte of storage cost? I'm not going to answer that question because that's, you know, a secret for Dropbox and it'…”
Aug 17, 2023 positive
Elliott-McCrea: Leaders build trust by publicly adopting employee language and ideas
“And so in your public communications, people are looking to see if you adopted their language, their ideas, that sort of stuff, because that's how you build trust. You know, you actually were listening, you trusted, you updated your ideas, you incorporated the…”
Aug 17, 2023 negative
Elliott-McCrea: Leaders should not automatically bring former colleagues into new organizations
“One of the things that people ask me is you look like you've worked with a bunch of great people. Like, do you just like bring them with you to every organization? And the answer is, of course not. Like every organization is different and partially I need the …”
Aug 17, 2023
Elliott-McCrea: Senior leaders get roughly six months before inherited problems become their fault
“There's sort of this interesting window where you get about six months and then it's your fault. I mean, that's my standard deal with anyone senior is you get about six months and then it's your fault. And that's just as true when you're Coming in and it is ea…”
Aug 17, 2023
Elliott-McCrea: Companies must adapt for juniors; senior hires must adapt themselves
“The more junior somebody is, the more it is your responsibility to make it work for them. And the more senior they are, the more it is their responsibility to figure out how to adapt and to identify that they are in the wrong place.”
Aug 17, 2023 positive
Elliott-McCrea: Management quality matters more for scaling than code reviews or architecture
“You know, I really have come to believe that high quality management is one of the keys if you're going to scale your organizations. And so the degree to which I invest in that versus invest in architectural principles or code reviews or other things has grown…”