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Engineering So You Want to Hire a Forward Deployed Engineer: How to Know If You Need One and How to Get the Role Right \ Founders and operators who’ve successfully built forward deployed engineering teams share the nuances that make this idiosyncratic role work, along with advice for hiring your own team.

Engineering Mastering the Human Side of Engineering: Lessons from Apple, Palantir and Slack \ Apple engineering leader Michael Lopp gives tactical advice for managers on how to empower individual engineers — and become better leaders themselves.

Engineering The Rotation Program That Keeps This Startup’s Engineers Learning — and Not Leaving \ Checkr VP of Engineering Krista Moroder opens up about the rotation program that’s helped keep her org’s non-regrettable attrition at near-zero.

Engineering This 90-Day Plan Turns Engineering Leaders Back into Frontline Developers \ David Loftesness has deftly cycled between management and IC roles throughout his career. Here, he lays out a plan to help engineering leaders make a smooth transition back into the technical weeds.

Product Replit’s Path to Product-Market Fit — The $1 Billion Side Project \ Sometimes the signals of product-market fit are so strong, they can no longer be ignored. In the latest installment of our Paths to Product-Market Fit series, Amjad Masad takes us on Replit's unconventional journey from college side project to billion-dollar AI startup.

Developing technical taste: A guide for next-gen engineers | Sam Schillace (Deputy CTO at Microsoft, creator of Google Docs) \ Sam Schillace is the CVP and Deputy CTO at Microsoft. Before Microsoft, Sam held prominent engineering roles at Google and Box. He has also founded six startups, including Writely, which was acquired by Google and became Google Docs.

Engineering Unexpected Anti-Patterns for Engineering Leaders — Lessons From Stripe, Uber & Carta \ Will Larson, a veteran engineering leader and the CTO at Carta, holds three conventional engineering management “anti-patterns” up to the light for a closer look.

Timeless lessons on running software companies that endure | Alyssa Henry (Square, Amazon, Microsoft)

Engineering New Engineering Managers Have a High Failure Rate — This Figma Leader is on a Mission to Fix It \ Are leaders setting up new engineering managers to fail? Marcel Weekes (VP of Engineering at Figma) sure thinks so. He unpacks his playbook for supporting the tricky transition from senior engineer to people manager and tested tactics for avoiding the common traps.

How to supercharge your engineering org | Kellan Elliott-McCrea (Adobe, Dropbox) \ Kellan Elliott-McCrea is a Head of Engineering at Adobe, overseeing Frame.io, a newly acquired video review and collaboration platform. He is known for his experience and expertise as an engineering leader.