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

Intercom, Inc.

And then you think about staff engineering, and it should be a totally different situation where every staff engineer I’ve worked with has had a manager, so that manager should be helping them. “We really underserve folks who want to stay on the engineering path. There’s definitely tech leads in our groups.

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

Business of Software Conference

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. These projects actually used physical Legos because we got a big donation from the Lego Group. But these days they can work on anything they want. is only 5%.