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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

Find a sponsor , not a mentor — someone who is in the room when opportunities arise and makes sure your name comes up. Building trust can be tough when you’re a new hire in a leadership position. A couple of years later, I got into a real leadership position. It’s more challenging to get than a mentor.

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The ‘Balance’ Audit: An Honest Inventory on Gender Equality at StubHub

StubHub

I think StubHub has a lot more women in leadership positions and emphasizes gender equality in an ongoing basis. We are making efforts to move in the direction of increasing diversity and I’m seeing the positive effects every day. if not more?—?of To me, StubHub is not well-balanced. We haven’t reached the ideal goal by any measure.

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10 Easy Ways To Irritate Your Design Team | Jane Austin, Babylon Health | BoS Europe 2018

Business of Software Conference

So the Quad has Product, ExD (that’s our design team) the Tech team and we have the Agile delivery coach (in other organizations this might be the delivery manager). Then you have tech and then from tech we move to Agile delivery coach who facilitates this team to make great decisions and between them they delight customers.