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What it takes to scale engineering (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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GitHub Engineering - What's the Story Behind the Pandemic?

The level of attrition within my team during the pandemic was quite a lot lower than a lot of other areas and I think that's because of the focus on healthy engineering teams. GitHub engineering actually tripled in size during my tenure, right? And the product area expanded so much as well. But I can tell you a little story and I think maybe I was teed up for thinking about culture early because of the way my team first came together. So then right out of the gate, my team was kind of like one third,. this XML group and these were sort of a lot of PhD academic types and mostly in Europe.

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