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Aside from what others have observed about this being extraordinarily bureaucratic for such a small company, there are big chunks that are missing. This is a VP of Engineering; where is the engineering in here?! As a technical leader, one might not necessarily have line code responsibilities, but you absolutely have technical responsibilities to the team and to the company. For example, there is always a tension between rigor and urgency in engineering ; it is the responsibility of engineering leadership to navigate that tension! e.g.: An engineer insists on stopping ship because of a critical bug, but there is an important customer at the other end to make a contractual deadline; what is to be done? It falls on the CEO to bear responsibility for that decision -- and for engineering leadership to make or inform that decision. Either way, it is the VP of Engineering who is in the hot seat -- not for OKRs or performance management or other FAANG middle management cosplay, but for making tough, technically informed decisions.

That is but one technical piece that is missing here; there are in fact many. Technologists who aspire to leadership: please focus on leadership, not middle management!



From part 1 they mentioned that "Directors run the company", meaning VP is where the engineering stops, and that strategy of the engineering org and alignment with other orgs is their job.




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