Emily Nakashima, VPE at Honeycomb, shares her experience about the hard choices an engineering leader has to make about how to structure — and sometimes restructure — their engineering org.
Emily and Rebecca talk cross-team collaboration, emphasizing eng as an equal partner to other functions, and mistakes that seemed like such a good idea at the time.
Find the transcript at: https://www.unblocked.fm/episodes/emily-nakashima-honeycomb/
Timestamps
(0:00) Introductions
(0:49) Emily’s journey to Honeycomb
(4:45) Observability vs. Monitoring
(7:55) About being VPE at Honeycomb
(10:13) What makes Honeycomb unique
(15:50) About Honeycomb’s structuring strategy
(19:20) Cross-team collaboration
(23:57) Examples of cross-team collaboration
(26:20) About ownership challenges
(29:01) Setting goals
(33:41) Hiring software engineers
(38:26) Pros and cons of ‘culture fit’
(42:35) Emily’s hot take on tech
Follow Emily on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eanakashima/
Follow Rebecca on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rmurphey/
Links and mentions
• Honeycomb: https://www.honeycomb.io/
