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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

On day one as Reddit’s new VP of Engineering, Nick Caldwell faced a dilemma. He had just spent 13 years at Microsoft, most recently as the head of 300 engineers. At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. Building trust can be tough when you’re a new hire in a leadership position.

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Top Global SaaS Trends You Should Know with Google Cloud and Zenoss (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

You’ll also learn how leading SaaS companies are able to scale and thrive in this complex, dynamic environment. Eyal Manor – VP, Engineering @ Google Cloud. In the last two years there have been so many new services around security, around machine learning that literally did not exist. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Meet BetterCloud’s New VP of Quality, Daniel Waithe

BetterCloud

Since then, he’s risen rapidly through the ranks and has established himself as a true thought leader in the world of quality engineering. Prior to joining BetterCloud as our new VP of quality, Waithe was a director of engineering at MailChimp. Now that you’re a manager, how do you build trust with the engineers who report to you?

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The Analyst Career Path

Casey Accidental

Technology companies are rapidly hiring analyst roles to pair with their product teams. And while my previous post discussed how to hire analysts and structure their teams within organizations, I haven’t written about how analysts should approach their careers. This is more than just a higher-power analyst role though.

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An Appllama Week

Crafty CTO

They are likely also want the LLM to work locally (at least partially) on their devices using the Neural Engine which adds further engineering complexity to their project. They could even be timing the LLM’s launch around a hardware release capable of running the model (M3, M4, etc…).

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Ten Questions Founder CEOs Should Always Be Able to Answer About Their Startups

Kellblog

Unlike traditional databases, our technology is built using a hybrid of database and search engine technology and thus provides excellent capabilities for storing, indexing, and rapidly querying both structured and unstructured data. That takes a lot of hiring and on-boarding risk off the table. Completeness.

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Woven CEO Tim Campos on how to spend your most important asset

Intercom, Inc.

. “Take the work out of work, that’s my motto in life” Prior to that, I was the CIO of another large Fortune 500 company called KLA-Tencor, and the rest of my life has been in software engineering: building tools to help people get things done without having to do all the work. Balancing human-computer interaction.