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“And actually it's one of the few teams where all of these things report, well, not all of them, but most of those functions report into one place. So engineering and design actually all report up into the design organization when they work on the website.”

“You know, this idea that if you just have the right benchmarks, like DCs won't judge you for spending too much in engineering, but it doesn't actually help you get to the right place. It just helps you get your board to be less angry at you.”

“I think a lot of the good product ideas, most of the good product ideas actually come up from engineering.”

“I do think you have to be technical. To do, do a role like this. I think a lot of people look at my professional background and think that I use my like broad leadership skills and the leverage of a great SVP to keep engineering team going. But no, actually I …”

“Probably everyone's learning to do a bit more of everyone else's job in this current moment. That said, I definitely think there's still immense value in product, immense value in design, immense value in engineering, and so I think those roles will continue t…”

“The first is I believe that analytics should have a seat at the table, just like engineering and product and sort of the business folks, the operators. For me, analytics is a business impact driving function and not purely a service function.”

“And when you're just getting started with a new product, the people that should be doing that are the people who are building it, right? That's an engineer. That's a designer. That's a salesperson or a support person. They're the front line of the smallest loo…”

“Engineering done successfully really is all about the details. And you don't necessarily have to understand all of those details, but when you act like they don't matter, and you don't care about them, and it's just like, I don't care, just like tell me when y…”

“When there's a lot of solutioning all the way down to detail without engineering involved, usually that's a painful recipe, you know, and then it's kind of like, no, we can't do that.”

“In my experience, I think that design is most successful at impacting what ships at the end if design is considered phase zero of the engineering process rather than a byproduct or a part of the product process.”

“That's how it worked at Apple the whole time under Steve. Design always reported to engineering, you know, they're there. Now I think it's structured a little bit differently, but design has always been part of engineering at Apple.”

“And I think that speaks to how these roles are going to evolve in the future. The lines are going to be blurred between whether you're in legal or in risk or in engineering and design even.”

“I think it's going to be a lot of the roles that are adjacent to engineering. So yeah, it could be like product managers. It could be design, could be data science. It is going to expand to pretty much any kind of work that you can do on a computer because the…”

“Meanwhile, I think a lot of people going into product might be coming from design, might be coming from data science, might be coming from engineering because the ones that have judgment, the ones that can talk, the ones that want to stay current, they might b…”

“And that to me, I think is very absent right now from most of the discourse in software, which is, it's all about how many tokens can we spend and how many features can we ship? I'm like, okay, but where's the engineering part? And the engineering part is the,…”

“I have found that PMs, designers, data scientists are able to get farther in the product development life cycle before engineering really needs to be front of the line in unlocking things than was true a couple years ago.”