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> And two, we lost a couple of deals last quarter due to engineering challenges I can help solve in weeks but would take my team months on their own. Some of th

by mrjn 5y ago

> And two, we lost a couple of deals last quarter due to engineering challenges I can help solve in weeks but would take my team months on their own. Some of these problems wouldn’t get solved without my help. Those were not my words. Those were the literal words used by my Engineering manager out of desperation to convey to me that the team needs my help in solving these problems. I'm not sure why you would take these as "throwing the team under the bus." This is actually expected -- given I wrote a lot of that code, and was the most senior engineer in the whole company. This was the result of that effort, btw: https://dgraph.io/blog/post/manual-memory-management-golang-jemalloc/ https://dgraph.io/blog/post/manual-memory-management-golang-... And we had the best team we could build with the resources we had access to. 4 of my team members have created 3 companies -- one is YC, one has a wild acquisition offer, and one is Sequoia-backed. And they all seem to like me a lot. https://twitter.com/poonai_/status/1487090519616356352 https://twitter.com/poonai_/status/1487090519616356352

dannyw 5y ago
As a lurker, I'd suggest you stop talking because you're not helping your case. As a leader/CEO/CTO, people judge you based on your ability to lead the team, not your personal technical skills. Your posts are throwing away the former in an attempt to demonstrate the latter.
- mrjn 5y ago
  That sentence is being taken out of context. So, I clarified the context. Moreover, the team in question -- I have spent countless hours working with them -- and they know exactly what I meant. No one ever complained about this blog post or this particular sentence. They knew exactly where I was coming from. If Glassdoor is a benchmark for the effectiveness of leaders, then might as well vote for whatever Russian trolls tell you to vote for. People are free to make their own judgments.

by mrjn 5y ago

dannyw 5y ago

As a lurker, I'd suggest you stop talking because you're not helping your case. As a leader/CEO/CTO, people judge you based on your ability to lead the team, not your personal technical skills. Your posts are throwing away the former in an attempt to demonstrate the latter.

mrjn 5y ago
That sentence is being taken out of context. So, I clarified the context. Moreover, the team in question -- I have spent countless hours working with them -- and they know exactly what I meant. No one ever complained about this blog post or this particular sentence. They knew exactly where I was coming from. If Glassdoor is a benchmark for the effectiveness of leaders, then might as well vote for whatever Russian trolls tell you to vote for. People are free to make their own judgments.