mharroun

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by mharroun 7y ago
The sad reality is often startups are started by smart but inexperianced founders. They hire smart and hardworking but again inexperianced senior leaders or employees who get promoted into senior leaders. If the company then is sucessfull e
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by mharroun 7y ago
I would argue !@#$ that. You are a co-founder and as such are entitled to a % of the entire business. This includes code, property, contacts, clients, and any IP.
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by mharroun 7y ago
Honestly reddit needs to fire their entire product, ui/ux, and front end teams. The recent decisions made by all of them have made me avoid reddit like the plague and fill me full or range when I even do attempt to use it.
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by mharroun 7y ago
Job hunting is like online dating, 95% will swipe left... and you shouldn't let it get to you. It takes luck, skill, and a personal match between you and a set of people at a company. At the end of the day both parties must feel like t
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by mharroun 7y ago
Ah the ole public s3 bucket gotcha. I can imagine its somthing along the lines of needed to move data 1 time between 2 systems for an export/import and got lazy with permissions.
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by mharroun 7y ago
Ive done 2 data pipelines, one alot like what most people are are talking. The other I had to build for a startup with millions of monthly uniques but only seed funding (cant do a 30+k a month data eng bill). Went with custom event emission
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by mharroun 7y ago
Management is full of politics... sorry but its true. A true leader must have all the skills needed to properly benefit and support the team. You look at my examples as negatives... its the wrong way to look at it... thoes other managers of
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by mharroun 7y ago
Easy to answer >Who has the unchecked authority to blame others for their mistakes? No one, its done by committee and/or senior leadership, the team/department with no seat at the table is always at a disadvantage. >Who will
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by mharroun 7y ago
Without (competent) engineering leadership. - Whos going to push back and sales and marketing for harassing you directly or taking direct blame for failures? - Who will represent the engineering team in leadship meetings to make sure polici
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by mharroun 7y ago
Ugh as someone with 12 years of experience and about 8 ish in a teach lead/management role. This seems super weird to me. An Engineering Manger/Director/VP/CTO's main job is 2 things. - To be the over arching interm
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by mharroun 7y ago
Ive lead teams in the 15-25 person range in companies as small as 50 and as large as 300.
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by mharroun 7y ago
Short answer from someone in the startup space for over 12 years... no. They are lottery tickets and I treat them as such. I was a c level at my last position and had a percentage ownership... no difference. I treat salary and bonus as my o
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by mharroun 7y ago
(Not disagreeing and is somewhat off the article topic to the article but wanted to counter point as engineers love to find reasons to rebuild in new stuff) So you could also argue for that savings it may not be worth it. 100k is less then
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by mharroun 7y ago
I come to prefer standup over slack, 10:30amish everyday a 30 second message of. -I did x yesterday and am doing y today. - I am blocked/need a (answer, code review, dependency completed, ect). -reminder of OOO or WFH. This minor messa
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by mharroun 7y ago
Is a replacement coming? Do you like the company otherwise? If your only issue is the other guy then in theory this could workout better for you as when the CTO's replacement comes in you all have nearly equal footing. Who is your boss
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by mharroun 7y ago
Incoming layoffs... between wework and uber the market will be "flooded" with talent. I wonder if having wework on your resume is a good or bad thing.
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by mharroun 7y ago
Thoes companies in particular expend capital on platforms to purposefully try to get at least more diversity in job applications so if anything it seems counter productive. (Disclaimer: I work for such a platform)
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by mharroun 7y ago
Had an interview with engineering at wework... the projects they pitch were things like creating a augmented reality system to visualize office build outs... I picked up the vibe that none of their engineering endevors will drive any profit
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by mharroun 7y ago
Wow does a day not go by that we get new news of wework falling apart?
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by mharroun 7y ago
Equity is monopoly money and or a lottery ticket. As someone whose spent nearly 13 years in the startup world my advice is this. Expect your cash comp to be your only comp and negotiate cash comp separately from equity. Most startups fail..
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by mharroun 7y ago
https://i.redd.it/tfugj4n3l6ez.png
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by mharroun 7y ago
We spend ~900$ a month on fargate to run our of our dev, stage, qa, and prod environments as well as some other services and sqs consumers. After the recent price decrease we looked at how much reserve instance would save us and the few hu
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by mharroun 7y ago
Rant time.. Revenue and business impact are ALL that matter. Good, clean, scaleable, and testable code only exist to rapidly support the above. The moment you choose tech value over buisness you are a risk not asset to a company. I sware so
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by mharroun 7y ago
I really dont get the hate or disinterest with ECS or fargate. It took me all of 4 days to come up with a CI/CD pipeline/production environment using ECS and fargate for the startup I was the cto for. We are now looking at kuberne
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by mharroun 7y ago
Css/javascript/html Node for the backend will also use javascript. That could take you a very long way if you want to just hack out a product.
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by mharroun 7y ago
As someone who has built and led many engineering/product teams interviewing & evaluating for/on culture is super important. One key thing though is making sure everyone on the team understands our culture, and applies is some
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by mharroun 7y ago
You got down voted by the hamster wheel engineers here. The reality is there is two types of engineers: - those how give zero shit about there company or product and use their currtent job as a platform the jump the their next job with zero
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by mharroun 7y ago
Im the executive who oversees all of UI/UX, Product, QA, Devops, and Engineering. This is one of the core aspects of my job hence its my job to care and puts me the fair position of giving a top down view of such issues. edit: wow down
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by mharroun 7y ago
As team lead are you the persons manager? If so you should have every right to go to hr to either terminate or start a performance improvement plan. If your a team lead with no hire/fire power you need to go to your department head (an
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by mharroun 7y ago
You case dose not match the parents claim, but i get that your situation seems tricky. I will also say this sounds like a management failure if 1 person is so critical they can get away with being disruptive to others. The leader of that pe

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