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"An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management" by Will Larson also draws from the author's experience at Stripe (among others, and is published by Strip
by pluc 4y ago
"An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management" by Will Larson also draws from the author's experience at Stripe (among others, and is published by Stripe itself [1]). I guess you can choose to see it as "there are lots of problems at Stripe as shown by the numerous published solutions".. but the transparency is worth something imo.
[1] https://press.stripe.com/ https://press.stripe.com/
- xyzzy_plugh 4y agoThe book draws from the author's experience but it doesn't necessitate that the problems at Stripe were actually solved by what's in the book. The author also draws on experience at Uber and Digg. The author also left Stripe some time after publishing that book. I always take engineering management advice in books as a "do what I say not what I do" sort of thing. It's rarely the case that companies actually operate as well as the stories published about how well they operate.
- hitekker 4y ago> I always take engineering management advice in books as a "do what I say not what I do" sort of thing. That's pretty true for Will. Too much self-marketing. It doesn’t help his decision to leave Stripe for a failing startup that just laid off 20% of its staff.
- O__________O 4y ago>> "An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management" by Will Larson - Direct link to book mentioned above: https://press.stripe.com/an-elegant-puzzle https://press.stripe.com/an-elegant-puzzle - And collection of reviews/interviews of the book on author’s website: https://lethain.com/elegant-puzzle-press/ https://lethain.com/elegant-puzzle-press/
- blueboo 4y agoDid Will ever run SRE teams tho? This book applies to engineering teams building software iirc