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So many phenomenal stories today in all the replies about on call culture and org transformation.

These stories need to be told. Not just beating up on people for how they're doing it wrong, but stories of how people got better. Stories of what good even looks like. So.
I'm gonna curate and edit a blog series. I'm interested in hearing stories about:

* how you moved oncall from ops to dev, or ops+dev
* tools that were transformative for you and why
* manager perspectives: what can they do to help? How do you persuade those above you?
* how did you go from debugging by hand to debugging through the lens of instrumentation?
* opinionated pieces on how to instrument, with code samples
* what did you learn from your worst job ever?
* healing wounds: recovering from abusive on call culture

... Etc.
The theme here is polyglot but centered around the current on call zeitgeist: shifting from monitoring to observability, toward software life cycle ownership, and ops/SRE as expert force multiplier.

Please DM me your email address and a few sentence pitch.
If you know of someone with a great story, or someone you admire, please ask them to submit. Or DM me their name if you're too shy. ☺️

Posts will go up on honeycomb blog, but not used to sell our software. You are welcome to link to your job site and say you are hiring.
I have a super big interest in seeing people go work for companies who are doing this well, so broadcast away.

Culture talks, war stories, technical dives, whatever. If it's interesting, submit. Length? Let's say 1-3 pages-ish. Due in the next two weeks.
I will edit posts for length and clarity, with your approval. I will write an intro or something as well.

OK think that's it. Your turn! Tell your story. ☺️

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btw ... going from line manager (managing engineers) to director (managing managers) is almost as much of a career change as going from engineer to manager.

you will suck at your job again, and you will have to rewire your brain's reward mechanisms again.
the metaphor i use is, as an engineer you get to use your hands to build a ship. as manager, you walk along the pier coaching and lending a hand.

as a director, you get a mission ("build 2x larger ships!") and a rusty fishing rod to wave at the managers to convey what you want.
almost all line managers rely on their personal charisma or subject authority to get their team to do things in some unique and unreplicable way.

once you become a director, you can't lean on instinct. what worked for you will not work for the managers who report to you.
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this is uncanny since i was JUST WRITING a tweet on questions you should ask when interviewing:

- is there a career ladder? comp bands?
- do managers and engineers get compensated equally by level?
- do you encourage people to move back and forth between IC/mgmt?
the rest of @JeremyMcGee's list:
- is management seen as a promotion?
- how long does it take someone to reach senior engineer out of school?
- is there a terminal level for engineers?
- what is the distribution of engineers over levels? how many principals?
- what are the technical expectations for managers?
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an interesting and subtle point. The team you recruit, hire and retain with a 6 month time horizon is very different than the one you hire with a 2y or 5y horizon.

People *tend* not to think on a long enough time scale. But sometimes too long!
I used to think "not a good fit" was always a bullshit term. After 3 years of running a company, and parting ways with ever so many brilliant, wonderful people for the right reasons which also had absolutely no reflection on their worth -- it's not (always) bullshit. At all.
Sometimes a question of limited resources and changing strategy, interpersonal dynamics and shifting needs, crazy gambles that don't pan out, needs not fully understood, technical affinities and joys and stages of life and personal balance.
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