jobs dev-engineering 
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 16, 2014
One of the vivid memories I have from being a startup CEO is the feeling that most people in your company have a look in their eyes that like they can do your job as well as you. Eventually you need a VP of Product to handle your product roadmap, a CTO for engineering leadership and VPs of sales, marketing & biz dev.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 16, 2011
Are you looking for great engineers? Job Hunting. The moment a big job is advertised you’re fawked. Cuz there are 20 people who have the exact qualifications as the job spec will suggest. They sit and wait for job specs to be posted on job boards. 5 / week = 250 / year. Recruiting. Hot company.
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Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 10, 2014
What they do with the money is add more engineers and maybe hiring a marketing person. The best ones bring in more executive leadership so you can appropriate allocate resources across sales, marketing, product, engineering and support. Let him do his f **g job. Your job is to sit down with him and plan out a strategic roadmap.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 15, 2014
It’s the thousands of jobs that weren’t created but you don’t even know it. A few years later they announced $150 million in a funding round at $1 billion+ valuation and are ramping up jobs to secure their market-leading position. It’s no wonder hundreds of jobs migrated. Perhaps – who knows?
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 28, 2011
5 engineers. I never invest in: - business people who outsource tech dev to 3rd parties (“to speed up time to market”)” If you like that feel free to go vote it up on Quora - it fell back a bit in the rankings. My ideal team is simple: Assuming 6 people. 1 CEO who doubles as head of product management. Nothing else.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 16, 2015
At times I wanted the engineering team to produce features to support our sales efforts to I occasionally leaned on them a bit. He said that product management would run like “asset allocation” in which we would allocate a certain % of dev to different purposes each quarter and once set they couldn’t be changed.
TechEmpower
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
The PMs are seeing late deliveries and bugs that suggest the devs just aren’t capable enough. Lack of confidence in a dev team can be caused by any number of factors, including: The dev team is, in fact, weak. Dev teams without a clear leader. Private bits of code that are jealously protected by a single dev.
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