Thread by @GergelyOrosz

Two small reasons to consider working at a company that has a high-quality engineering blog:

1. A sign of a transparent engineering culture (important!)

2. Some of your work & impact can become public (writing on the eng blog), possibly creating future opportunities for you.

High-quality eng blogs:
- Share in-depth details about eng challenges, approaches, learnings.
- Talk about (internal) tools used & specifics. Often with screenshots, code samples.
- *Always* display names of the engineers authoring the post

Few examples:

https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1373383165709053954?s=20

A company with a high-quality engineering blog typically:
- Supports engineers attending engineering conferences, talking about their learnings
- Has much larger internal awareness of who does what ("have you read their blog post?")
- Can attract industry-known talent more

On the other hand, my experience with companies who do not support engineers blogging (and don't have an eng blog):
- Often have nontechnical leadership
- Can forbid sharing of "internal" details: even if it's purely tech
- Can ban engineers speaking at conferences, podcasts etc

One of the reasons I was able to share so much of what I worked on at Uber, my lessons learned and others was... because much of it was all public, on the engineering blog.

Compare this when you work at e.g. Apple. No coincidence they don't have an eng blog. Different culture.