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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop?

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How Levels.fyi Brought Salary Transparency to the Tech Industry

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

I was looking at companies to apply to and had just joined an app called Blind (an anonymous community forum for chatting about the workplace). We realized this was a common question and decided to build a simple visualization to compare software engineer titles across companies. What was your background before starting Levels?

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Finding & Nurturing Top Talent | Elpie Bannister & Alex Yang | BoS Europe 2019

Business of Software Conference

Alex Yang // VP of Engineering, Simprints. Alex Yang: For those of you who are wondering why you just got Rick-rolled, Elpie and I decided to crowdsource our walk on song from our team. Everyone knows that hiring engineers is really hard. of engineering where I lead the people and processes side for the engineering team.