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

Intercom, Inc.

After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? How do we fix it?”

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

Mid-stage startups. ” At Intercom, we build a SaaS solution for our customers, but we don’t consider ourselves a software company. The people who spend their days writing software are not called software engineers. They are called product engineers. Best in class public companies (e.g.

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Growth Engineer Job Description Cheatsheet

Sylvia Ng

At least a Bachelor degree in software engineering. Exceptional proficiency in software engineering. Work across the stack: mostly Python/Flask, PostgreSQL, JavaScript (React/JQuery/Backbone) and working with AWS. Unify our analytics infrastructure across disparate software and human processes.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

Bringing Sales & Leadership with Heart and Ladies Happy Hour to the sales community. I went through a VP of Sales Program with SaaSy Sales Leadership — the moment I realized I didn’t want to be a VP of Sales. She is a Speaker and Hostess for LinkedIn Live. What is one a-ha moment you’ve had in your sales career?

Scale 130
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PODCAST 129: The Keys to Building and Scaling a Company from Scratch with Vishal Sunak

Sales Hacker

Not me personally, but a bunch of smart PhDs and software engineers, they’re the ones that can make it a reality. Vishal Sunak: Thankfully now I have a great sales team filled with great sales leadership. I got the infrastructure, I got the AWS bill, don’t worry about it. Don’t worry about it.”

Scale 108
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10 Years In Tech

Outseta

Best of all, the types of smart people that you run into in tech run the gamut from highly technical software engineers, to massively creative designers and marketers, to analytical data wizzes and finance experts. There’s an awful lot of nuance here and the devil is in the details.