Presentation: Building Great Engineer Cultures from 0 to Scale

After building Pinterest from the beginning and rebuilding Reddit's engineering team as CTO, I can safely say building startups is hard. As a founder, engineer, lead, or manager, you not only have to build a great product and secure funding, but also build a great culture. If you don't build a great team, you will fail.

We're going to look at how companies evolve from very early stage startup growth to big companies and many of the management / cultural challenges faced at various inflection points in growth. I'll introduce a model that I used at Pinterest and Reddit to break up the understanding of culture into smaller portions that we can then use to grade ourselves and fix bite sized issues.

Along the way, we'll dig deep into how to how common culture issues appear plus ways to fix them, looking at issues around trust, goal setting, communication, safety, and org structuring.