Rising to engineering leadership challenges at Honeycomb with Emily Nakashima

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.

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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

Links and mentions:
• Follow Mason on LinkedIn:   / eanakashima  
• Follow Rebecca on LinkedIn:   / rmurphey  
• Honeycomb: https://honeycomb.io/

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