When the UX is so bad, but you can't ignore the product price and force yourself through it 4 times... That's another issue you can't order QTY 4

It's been over a year since Uber laid off about 20% of it's engineering organization. In my observation, the layoffs - and how they were done - were one of the biggest mistake the company did: and something other tech companies should learn from. Thread with my observations.

Careers Auth0 > +100 open positions auth0.com/careers

We are hiring an Infrastructure Engineer for our team at Prisma Postgres! If you have experience as an SRE, infra, or prod engineer, and operating cloud workloads and you like interesting challenges, this (remote) job might be for you!

“Is it easier to get into Big Tech / FANG as a senior engineer or as an engineering manager? It’s my goal to work there, but my startup has an opportunity for me to become a manager.” It’s a lot harder as a manager. Here’s why:

There is so little information written about equity for tech employees, and even less by software engineers who benefitted from it. Uber and Square engineer Matt Dickenson wrote the book Equity Compensation for Tech Employees, which fills this gap. Here's the table of contents:

Been wanting to share this with the world for weeks Auth0 we've always pushed to create content that is useful for the global development community. Today we’re taking another important step in our Authorization journey by releasing the zanzibar.academy learning site 👇

I've got a secret to tell you... Your boss is tired of being your manager. They want you to manage them. Managing up: How to get what you want & give your boss what they need 🧵

If you were impacted by the recent AWS outage, the decision to invest in multi-cloud / multi-datacenter is simple: How much did this outage cost you vs the cost of adding a (lot) more complexity & maintenance with multi-cloud/DC? If outage cost >> this, only then do it.

Converting HEIC files to JPGs is actually built into Finder now, no need to manually use ‘Preview’ or similar.

early experiment with Sign in With Ethereum + auth0 🔹 ✅ usernameless + passwordless auth ✅ Support for MetaMask.eth 🦊, WalletConnect, walletlink ✅ profile enriched with ENS + NFTs through The Graph Interested? discuss 👉 discord.gg/rkjYHWHJ

To celebrate 1k followers and to thank everyone for their support this year, I’m happy to announce a giveaway as we round out the year! Follow and RT for a chance to win: -Model 1 VA7 Genesis, recapped w/ Triple Bypass and RGB LED -8Bitdo 2.4g Wireless Controller -Recapped PSU

Give yourself full permission to interview your future managers back. When they ask "Do you have any questions for me," take the opportunity to expose what your next 1+ years under this person might be like. Here are 5 questions I have or wished I'd asked of my future managers:

One of the things I'm most proud of as a manager is how I decided to "democratize" who leads projects. Instead of one or two tech leads driving all projects, every project was led by a different engineer: the leads and myself supporting this person. The results were great.

After I got my first SWE job, I thought I'd climb the ranks quickly: I worked hard and was reasonably good at coding. Turns out, being a senior engineer requires more that than ⚠️ 4 mindset shifts 🧠 I needed to become a true tech lead 👇🏽👇🏽

Software engineers who pay attention to the market are starting to reject offers from overvalued late-stage companies offering options. Heard someone reject an offer from Airtable as they don’t believe the company is worth $11B with ~$100M in revenue in this current market.

Non-obvious traits of winners:

I studied 60 of the world's MOST influential CEOs under the age of 30. How they got there SO EARLY??? 16 realities they learned sooner on their journey:

A few software engineering practices which many teams will also consider "best practices." What other useful engineering practices would you mention? (Yes, getting back to working on The Software Engineer’s Guidebook!)

I don't usually get this excited about webinars, but tomorrow Gergely Orosz and I are doing one on how to control your infinitely-growing vendor spend, and...you're gonna want to be there. info.honeycomb.io/strategies-and…