This post was originally published on learningfromincidents.io. Photo by Jared Erondu on Unsplash As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Indeed, I often participate in the retrospective process that follows an incident. Retrospectives—in use at Indeed since late 2015—are a meaningful part of our engineering culture. I have never questioned their importance, but recently I was struck by […]
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IndeedEng Culture: Be Ambitious, Stay Humble
In my previous posts on Indeed’s engineering culture, I wrote about keeping teams independent, making better mistakes, dealing with consolidation debt, encouraging autonomy and initiative, and the importance of not stack ranking individuals. These are my closing thoughts on how we work here at Indeed. Perhaps one of Indeed’s traits that has struck me the […]
IndeedEng Culture: Don’t Stack Rank
In this post, I stand unabashedly against stack ranking. Evaluate how employees perform, not how they compare. Is this really controversial? If you assign to teams or divisions a fixed budget for bonuses, promotions or stocks, you create de facto a zero-sum game. You need losers to have winners. From that point, you can make […]