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44 Engineering Management Lessons

Hard-won lessons from the cofounder of RethinkDB

Slava Akhmechet shares 44 concise, practical lessons learned from building RethinkDB. Covers hiring, culture, process, communication, and leadership. Each lesson is brief but powerful, distilling years of experience into actionable insights. Particularly valuable for startup engineering leaders.

Source: defmacro.org
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Problems this helps solve:

Team performanceCommunicationConflict resolutionDecision-making

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