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"What to do when an engineer messes up" with Stripe's Head of Foundation Eng, Will Larson

Plato Engineering Q&As

English - December 17, 2019 23:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MB - ★★★★ - 7 ratings
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Previous Episode: "Managing a team in a sinking ship" with Stripe's Head of Foundation Engineering, Will Larson
Next Episode: "Why eng managers need an intellectual property strategy" with Talkdesk's VP of Eng, Jason Fama

Hear from Stripe's Head of Foundation Eng and author of An Elegant Puzzle, Will Larson, on how we handled a situation when upper management wasn't happy with an engineer who messed up (when In fact, there were systematic Issue at play). Later in the episode, Will offers advice to an engineering manager on balancing the pressure to fix technical debt with shipping new features.

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