On Becoming a VP of Engineering
People rarely talk about how they made it into the role of VP of Engineering. Join Emily as she opens up about the process - good and bad.
Honeycomb is the observability platform built for AI-era software. Fast queries, unified telemetry, and LLM observability. Used by Slack, Intercom, and Dropbox.
Visit honeycomb.io → On Hacker News Jan 2017 – Jun 2025
Infrastructure & DevOps 5Systems & Performance 4Career & Management 3Databases & Data 2Software Engineering 1AI & Machine Learning 1
People rarely talk about how they made it into the role of VP of Engineering. Join Emily as she opens up about the process - good and bad.
Charity Majors challenges managers to better understand the life of on-call engineers and how to share that on-call ownership among the team.
Join Emily for part 2 of her series on becoming VP of Engineering, where she opens up about the good and bad parts of transitioning to VP.