Rising to engineering leadership challenges at Honeycomb with Emily Nakashima from Honeycomb

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Engineering Unblocked

Swarmia

27 episodes

6 days ago

Keeping software engineers in flow and unblocked is one of the key responsibilities of software development leaders. In each episode of the Engineering Unblocked podcast, Rebecca Murphey interviews leaders who have navigated challenges of scale, complexity, and growth. You’ll hear from people with lived experience across the software development ecosystem, from CTOs and VPEs to directors and line managers to product managers, program managers, tech leads, and more.

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Rising to engineering leadership challenges at Honeycomb with Emily Nakashima from Honeycomb

Engineering Unblocked

45 minutes 43 seconds

1 year ago

Rising to engineering leadership challenges at Honeycomb with Emily Nakashima from Honeycomb

Emily Nakashima, VPE at Honeycomb, shares her experience about the hard choices an engineering leader has to make about how to structure — and sometimes restructure — their engineering org.

Emily and Rebecca talk cross-team collaboration, emphasizing eng as an equal partner to other functions, and mistakes that seemed like such a good idea at the time.

Find the transcript at: https://www.unblocked.fm/episodes/emily-nakashima-honeycomb/

Timestamps (0:00) Introductions (0:49) Emily’s journey to Honeycomb (4:45) Observability vs. Monitoring (7:55) About being VPE at Honeycomb (10:13) What makes Honeycomb unique (15:50) About Honeycomb’s structuring strategy (19:20) Cross-team collaboration (23:57) Examples of cross-team collaboration (26:20) About ownership challenges (29:01) Setting goals (33:41) Hiring software engineers (38:26) Pros and cons of ‘culture fit’ (42:35) Emily’s hot take on tech

Follow Emily on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eanakashima/

Follow Rebecca on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rmurphey/

Links and mentions • Honeycomb: https://www.honeycomb.io/