How to Build a Culture of Ownership, and Other Engineering Leadership Tips from Plaid & Dropbox

By firstround - 2021-03-01

Description

Jean-Denis Grèze has led engineering teams at Plaid and Dropbox: Here’s what he’s learned about crafting a bottoms-up culture, hiring and motivating large teams.

Summary

Jean-Denis Grèze’s engineering management philosophy can be summed up in just one word: And the other mistake I see is they point out a failure, and they clearly haven’t thought about how they would have behaved differently if they had a time machine and could go back in time.
The point of a title structure is that people will use the titles internally.
If you have a 2,000-person engineering org, isn’t it nice to know immediately who’s the person on that team that I should speak to who’s an expert?”

Topics

Management (0.48)
Machine_Learning (0.08)
Backend (0.07)

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