Medium Engineering growth: tracks.

tracks.txt

	Mobile
		Works effectively within established iOS or Android architectures, following current best practices
			signals:
				Delivers features requiring simple local modifications
				Adds simple actions that call server endpoints
				Reuses existing components appropriately
			examples:
				Added existing button to a different iOS surface
				Add follow button for publications on Android
				Fetched and displayed a new stream, using existing stream item styles
		Develops new instances of existing architecture, or minor improvements to existing architecture
			signals:
				Defines new useful and appropriate proto-generated objects
				Creates simple new activities on Android
				Migrates code from old patterns to new patterns
			examples:
				Upgraded SDWebImage to a new major version
				Added support for rendering a new type of stream item
				Prototyped a simple new feature quickly
		Designs major new features and demonstrates a nuanced understanding of mobile platform constraints
			signals:
				Implements complex features with a large product surface area
				Works effectively with  Android reactive programming framework
				Adds support for new iOS features after a major iOS version upgrade
			examples:
				Designed iOS caching strategy for offline reading
				Built series reader on Android
				Informed the team about recent best practice changes and deprecations
		Builds complex, reusable architectures that pioneer best practices and enable engineers to work more effectively
			signals:
				Pioneers architecture migration strategies that reduce programmer burden
				Fixes subtle memory management issues
				Implements interactive dismissals that bring delight
			examples:
				Upgraded CocoaPods to a new major version
				Designed architecture for fetching and rendering stream items
				Migrated Android persistance layer to reactive programming
		Is an industry-leading expert in mobile engineering or sets strategic mobile direction for an eng team
			signals:
				Defines long-term goals and ensures active projects are in service of them
				Designs and builds innovative, industry-leading UI interactions
				Invents new techniques to responsibly stretch limits of the Android platform
			examples:
				Defined and drove complete migration plan to Swift or Kotlin
				Implemented Android recycler views before platform support existed
				Pioneered application-level abstractions for multi-app environment
	Servers
		Works effectively within established server side frameworks, following current best practices
			signals:
				Adds NodeJS endpoints using layers architecture
				Adds golang endpoints using Gotham architecture
				Makes minor server changes to support client needs
			examples:
				Added IFTTT trigger for new bookmark to medium2
				Added delete audio route to Buggle
				Queried a Dynamo LSI appropriately
		Develops new instances of existing architecture, or minor improvements to existing architecture
			signals:
				Assesses correctness and utility of existing code and avoids blind copy-pasting
				Generalizes code when appropriate
				Determines data needs from product requirements
			examples:
				Identified need for new index on Dynamo
				Acted as caretaker for routes protos
				Updated Facebook API version and codebase dependencies
		Designs standalone systems of moderate complexity, or major new features in existing systems
			signals:
				Acts as primary maintainer for existing critical systems
				Integrates third party services effectively
				Writes playbooks for new service maintenance
			examples:
				Implemented Google Auth login to Medium
				Implemented payments integration with Stripe
				Built Textshots server
		Builds complex, reusable architectures that pioneer best practices for other engineers, or multi-system services
			signals:
				Delivers complex systems that achieve their goals
				Avoids subtle architectural mistakes when considering new systems
				Makes appropriate buy vs build choices
			examples:
				Designed Medium's ranked feed architecture
				Designed custom domains architecture
				Created Gotham framework for creating Go services
		Is an industry-leading expert in server side engineering or sets strategic server side direction for an eng team
			signals:
				Designs transformational projects of significant complexity and scope
				Makes decisions that have positive, long term, wide ranging consequences
				Identifies and solves systemic problems with current architecture
			examples:
				Researched, vetted, and selected Go as Medium's statically typed language
				Defined microservices architecture and medium2 migration plan
				Defined and implemented proprietary IP core to the company's success
	Foundations
		Works effectively within established structures, following current best practices
			signals:
				Writes thorough postmortems for service outages
				Makes simple configuration changes to services
				Performs backfills safely and effectively, without causing pages
			examples:
				Made safe and effective Ansible changes
				Implemented new ETL pipelines based on existing ones
				Resolved out of disk errors independently
		Develops new instances of existing architecture, or minor improvements to existing architecture
			signals:
				Made minor version upgrades to technologies
				Builds machine learning jobs within the ML framework
				Triages service issues correctly and independently
			examples:
				Upgraded NodeJS from 8.0 to 8.1.1
				Built custom packages for RPMs
				Improved ETL efficiency by improving Dynamo to S3 loading
		Designs standalone systems of moderate complexity, or major new features in existing systems
			signals:
				Acts as primary maintainer for existing critical systems
				Designs moderately complex systems
				Makes major version upgrades to libraries
			examples:
				Designed Ansible configuration management
				Built Medium's realtime stats pipeline
				Designed flexible framework for writing machine learning jobs
		Builds complex, reusable architectures that pioneer best practices for other engineers, or multi-system services
			signals:
				Designs complex projects that encompass multiple systems and technologies
				Demonstrates deep knowledge of foundational systems
				Introduces new databases and technologies to meet underserved needs
			examples:
				Designed and built BBFD
				Designed AWS configuration management
				Introduced Kinesis and pioneered streaming events pipeline
		Is an industry-leading expert in foundational engineering or sets strategic foundational direction for an eng team
			signals:
				Designs transformational projects in service of long-term goals
				Defines the strategic vision for foundational work and supporting technologies
				Invents industry-leading techniques to solve complex problems
			examples:
				Invented a novel ML technique that advanced the state of the art
				Defined and developed Medium's continuous delivery strategy
				Developed and implemented HA strategy
	Web client
		Works effectively within established web client architectures, following current best practices
			signals:
				Makes minor modifications to existing screens
				Fixes simple design quality issues
				Uses CSS appropriately, following style guide
			examples:
				Implemented sticky footer on the post page
				Hooked up the action to dismiss a post from a stream
				Built PaymentHistory screen using ResponseScreen
		Develops new instances of existing architecture, or minor improvements to existing architecture
			signals:
				Makes sensible abstractions based on template and code patterns
				Specs and builds interactive components independently
				Prototypes simple new features quickly
			examples:
				Built credit card input component
				Created shared buttons template
				Built modal system
		Designs major new features and demonstrates a nuanced understanding of browser constraints
			signals:
				Provides useful design feedback and suggests feasible alternatives
				Performs systemic tasks to significantly minimise bundle size
				Acts a caretaker for all of web client code
			examples:
				Designed font loading strategy for Medium
				Researched utility of service workers for Medium
				Designed and implemented ResponseScreen
		Builds complex, reusable architectures that pioneer best practices and enable engineers to work more effectively
			signals:
				Pioneers architecture migrations that reduce programmer burden
				Implements complex UI transitions that bring delight
				Makes architectural decisions that eliminate entire classes of bugs
			examples:
				Designed Medium's post morpher and delta system
				Implemented Medium's scrolling text over image blur
				Designed and pioneered proto-based model storage
		Is an industry-leading expert in web client or sets strategic web client direction for an eng team
			signals:
				Invents new techniques to innovate and overcome browser constraints
				Identifies and solved systemic problems with current architecture
				Defines a long-term vision for web client and ensures projects are in service of it
			examples:
				Invented CSS in JS
				Defined and drove migration strategy to Lite
				Implemented unidirectional data flow to completion
	Project management
		Effectively delivers individual tasks
			signals:
				Estimates small tasks accurately
				Delivers tightly-scoped projects efficiently
				Writes effective technical specs outlining approach
			examples:
				Wrote the technical spec for featured post images
				Delivered stream item support for email digests
				Delivered payment history dashboard
		Effectively delivers small personal projects
			signals:
				Performs research and considers alternative approaches
				Balances pragmatism and polish appropriately
				Defines and hits interim milestones
			examples:
				Delivered promo editor
				Delivered audio uploading for web client
				Executed the recommends to claps backfill
		Effectively delivers projects through a small team
			signals:
				Delegates tasks to others appropriately
				Integrates business needs into project planning
				Chooses appropriate project management strategy based on context
			examples:
				Ran project retro to assess improvement opportunities
				Completed launch checklist unprompted for well controlled rollout
				Facilitated project kickoff meeting to get buy-in
		Effectively delivers projects through a large team, or with a significant amount of stakeholders or complexity
			signals:
				Finds ways to deliver requested scope faster, and prioritizes backlog
				Manages dependencies on other projects and teams
				Leverages recognition of repeated project patterns
			examples:
				Oversaw technical delivery of Hightower
				Managed infrastructure migration to VPC
				Involved marketing, legal, and appropriate functions at project start
		Manages major company pushes delivered by multiple teams
			signals:
				Considers external constraints and business objectives when planning
				Leads teams of teams, and coordinates effective cross-functional collaboration
				Owns a key company metric
			examples:
				Managed technical migration to SOA
				Lead technical delivery of 10/7
				Delivered multi-month engineering project on time
	Communication
		Communicates effectively to close stakeholders when called upon, and incorporates constructive feedback
			signals:
				Communicates project status clearly and effectively
				Collaborates with others with empathy
				Asks for help at the appropriate juncture
			examples:
				Updated The Watch before running a backfill
				Updated project status changes in Asana promptly
				Gave thoughtful check-in and check-out comments
		Communicates with the wider team appropriately, focusing on timeliness and good quality conversations
			signals:
				Practises active listening and suspension of attention
				Ensures stakeholders are aware of current blockers
				Chooses the appropriate tools for accurate and timely communication
			examples:
				Received and integrated critical feedback positively
				Created cross-team Slack channel for payments work
				Spoke to domain experts before writing spec
		Proactively shares information, actively solicits feedback, and facilitates communication for multiple stakeholders
			signals:
				Resolves communication difficulties between others
				Anticipates and shares schedule deviations in plenty of time
				Manages project stakeholder expectations effectively
			examples:
				Directed team response effectively during outages
				Gave a substantial Eng All Hands presentation on React
				Gave notice of upcoming related work in Eng Briefing
		Communicates complex ideas skillfully and with nuance, and establishes alignment within the wider organization
			signals:
				Communicates project risk and tradeoffs skillfully and with nuance
				Contextualizes and clarifies ambiguous direction and strategy for others
				Negotiates resourcing compromises with other teams
			examples:
				Lead off-site workshop on interviewing
				Wrote Medium's growth framework and rationale
				Aligned the entire organization around claps
		Influences outcomes at the highest level, moves beyond mere broadcasting, and sets best practices for others
			signals:
				Defines processes for clear communication for the entire team
				Shares the right amount of information with the right people, at the right time
				Develops and delivers plans to execs, the board, and outside investors
			examples:
				Organized half year check-in company offsite
				Created the communication plan for a large organizational change
				Presented to the board about key company metrics and projects
	Craft
		Delivers consistently good quality work
			signals:
				Tests new code thoroughly, both locally, and in production once shipped
				Writes tests for every new feature and bug fix
				Writes clear comments and documentation
			examples:
				Caught a bug on Hatch before it went live
				Landed non-trivial PR with no caretaker comments
				Wrote hermetic tests for the happy and sad cases
		Increases the robustness and reliability of codebases, and devotes time to polishing products and systems
			signals:
				Refactors existing code to make it more testable
				Adds tests for uncovered areas
				Deletes unnecessary code and deprecates proactively when safe to do so
			examples:
				Requested tests for a PR when acting as reviewer
				Reduced the number of zelda fitzgerald exceptions
				Fixed a TODO for someone else in the codebase
		Improves others' ability to deliver great quality work
			signals:
				Implements systems that enable better testing
				Gives thoughtful code reviews as a domain expert
				Adds tooling to improve code quality
			examples:
				Improved PRB to run the same volume of tests faster
				Simplified hermetic test data modification
				Created fixture system for visual quality
		Advocates for and models great quality with proactive actions, and tackles difficult and subtle system issues
			signals:
				Builds systems so as to eliminate entire classes of programmer error
				Focuses the team on quality with regular reminders
				Coordinates Watch priorities and projects
			examples:
				Added code coverage reporting to iOS CI pipeline
				Iterated repeatedly to develop Medium's underlines solution
				Defined and oversaw plan for closing Heartbleed vulnerability
		Enables and encourages the entire organization to make quality a central part of the development process
			signals:
				Defines policies for the engineering org that encourage quality work
				Identifies and eliminates single points of failure throughout the organization
				Secures time and resources from execs to support great quality
			examples:
				Negotiated resources for Fix-It week with exec team
				Instituted and ensured success of a 20% time policy
				Started The Watch
	Initiative
		Identifies opportunities for organizational change or product improvements
			signals:
				Writes Hatch posts about improvement opportunities
				Raises meaningful tensions in tactical meetings
				Asks leadership team probing questions at FAM
			examples:
				Wrote about problems with TTR on Hatch
				Wrote about content policy problems on Hatch
				Reported a site issue in Github
		Causes change to positively impact a few individuals or minor improvement to an existing product or service
			signals:
				Picks bugs off the backlog proactively when blocked elsewhere
				Makes design quality improvements unprompted
				Takes on trust and safety tasks proactively when blocked elsewhere
			examples:
				Advocated on own behalf for a change in role
				Implemented flow typing for promises
				Audited web client performance in Chrome and proposed fixes
		Causes change to positively impact an entire team or instigates a minor feature or service
			signals:
				Demonstrates concepts proactively with prototypes
				Fixes complicated bugs outside of regular domain
				Takes ownership of systems that nobody owns or wants
			examples:
				Defined style guide to resolve style arguments
				Proposed and implemented at-mentions prototype
				Implemented video for Android independently, unprompted
		Effects change that has a substantial positive impact on the engineering organization or a major product impact
			signals:
				Champions and pioneers new technologies to solve new classes of problem
				Exemplifies grit and determination in the face of persistent obstacles
				Instigates major new features, services, or architectures
			examples:
				Created the interviewing rubric and booklet
				Implemented and secured support for native login
				Migrated medium2 to mono repo and bazel
		Effects change that has a substantial positive impact on the whole company
			signals:
				Creates a new function to solve systemic issues
				Galvanizes the entire company and garners buy in for a new strategy
				Changes complex organizational processes
			examples:
				Migrated the organization from Holacracy
				Built Medium Android prototype and convinced execs to fund it
				Convinced leadership and engineering org to move to Medium Lite architecture
	Org design
		Respects and participates in processes, giving meaningful feedback to help the organization improve
			signals:
				Reflects on meetings that leave them inspired or frustrated
				Teaches others about existing processes
				Actively participates and makes contributions within organizational processes
			examples:
				Facilitated effective tactical meeting with empathy
				Explained tactical meeting format to a new hire
				Provided feedback on sprint planning meeting
		Identifies opportunities to improve existing processes and makes changes that positively affect the local team
			signals:
				Defines meeting structure and cadence that meets team needs
				Engages in organizational systems thinking
				Advocates for improved diversity and inclusion, and proposes ideas to help
			examples:
				Defined Frankenmeeting structure for small team
				Improved Watch on-call rotation scheduling
				Defined standard channels for inter-team communication
		Develops processes to solve ongoing organizational problems
			signals:
				Creates programs that meaningfully improve organizational diversity
				Solves long-standing organizational problems
				Reallocates resources to meet organizational needs
			examples:
				Developed baseline team templates for consistency
				Created bug-rotation program to address ongoing quality issues
				Defined Guilds manifesto and charter
		Thinks deeply about organizational issues and identifies hidden dynamics that contribute to them
			signals:
				Evaluates incentive structures and their effect on execution
				Analyzes existing processes for bias and shortfall
				Ties abstract concerns to concrete organizational actions or norms
			examples:
				Connected mobile recruiting difficulties to focus on excellence
				Raised leadership level change discrepancies
				Analyzed the hiring rubric for false negative potential
		Leads initiatives to address issues stemming from hidden dynamics and company norms
			signals:
				Builds programs to train leadership in desired skills
				Creates new structures that provide unique growth opportunities
				Leads planning and communication for reorgs
			examples:
				Lead efforts to increase number of mobile engineers
				Directed resources to meaningfully improve diversity at all levels
				Built the growth framework rubric
	Accomplishment
		Helps individuals identify blockers and helps them identify next steps for resolution
			signals:
				Notices when someone is stuck and reaches out
				Helps others break down problems into feasible, tangible next steps
				Talks through problems non-judgmentally
			examples:
				Completed training on diagnosing problems
				Unblocked a group member
				Reinforces and affirms positive feedback for good work
		Helps individuals resolve difficult performance issues, with insight, compassion, and skill
			signals:
				Gathers context outside the immediate problem
				Recognizes issues within local environment and suggests change
				Works to encourage ownership of actions and responsibilities
			examples:
				Completed training on decision making
				Convinced a group member to solve a problem directly, rather than doing it for them
				Gave honest feedback about poor performance, with compassion
		Intervenes in long-standing performance issues with targeted behavior change or performance plans
			signals:
				Aggregates signals of poor performance and creates process for improvement
				Investigates motivation and externalities for consistent poor performance
				Puts together comprehensive, achievable performance plans
			examples:
				Worked with group member to address persistent communication failures
				Arranged a transfer to another team, resulting in improved performance
				Managed group member closely to maximise chances of PIP success
		Mediates escalated situations, empowers underperforming teams, and resolves conflict
			signals:
				Recognizes heightened situations and toxic or aggressive interactions
				Inserts themself into conflict where appropriate to calm and mediate
				Encourages open dialog and builds trust between parties in conflict
			examples:
				Empowered a team to drive forward amidst uncertainty
				Protected team from externalities so they could focus on goals
				Mediated sit-down between team members to address tension
		Resolves complex organizational dysfunction, or persistent conflict at senior levels
			signals:
				Takes control of dysfunctional teams to organise chaos
				Repairs broken team dynamics and builds harmony
				Presides over a well-oiled team of teams
			examples:
				Turned around the performance of a problematic team
				De-escalated serious tensions between teams
				Rebuilt trust between senior team leads
	Wellbeing
		Uses tools and processes to help ensure colleagues are healthy and happy
			signals:
				Keeps confidences unless legally or morally obliged to do otherwise
				Applies the reasonable person principle to others
				Avoids blame and focuses on positive change
			examples:
				Ensured group members were taking enough vacation
				Put themself in another's shoes to understand their perspective
				Checked in with colleague showing signs of burnout
		Creates a positive, supportive, engaging team environment for group members
			signals:
				Sheds light on other experiences to build empathy and compassion
				Validates ongoing work and sustains motivation
				Proposes solutions when teams get bogged down or lose momentum
			examples:
				Coordinated a small celebration for a project launch
				Connected tedious A|B testing project with overall company goals
				Noted a team without a recent win and suggested some easy quick wins
		Manages expectations across peers, leads in the org, promotes calm, and prevents consensus building
			signals:
				Trains group members to separate stimulus from response
				Maintains a pulse on individual and team morale
				Helps group members approach problems with curiosity
			examples:
				Completed training on transference and counter transference
				Completed training on compromise and negotiation techniques
				Reframed a problem as a challenge, instead of a barrier, when appropriate
		Advocates for the needs of teams and group members, and proactively works to calm the organization
			signals:
				Ensures team environments are safe and inclusive, proactively
				Grounds group member anxieties in reality
				Tracks team retention actively and proposes solutions to strengthen it
			examples:
				Relieved org tension around product direction by providing extra context
				Encouraged group members to focus on what they can control
				Guided people through complex organizational change
		Manages narratives, channels negativity into inspiration and motivation, and protects the entire team
			signals:
				Recognizes and points out narratives when appropriate
				Works to reshape narratives from victimization to ownership
				Increases the psychological safety of the entire team
			examples:
				Converted group member from a problem haver to a problem solver
				Challenged false narrative and redirected to compassion and empathy
				Cultivated and championed a culture of empathy within the entire team
	Career development
		Gives insight into opportunities and helps identify individuals' strengths and weaknesses
			signals:
				Advocates on behalf and in defense of a group member
				Shares opportunities for improvements and recognises achievements
				Explains appropriate available industry paths
			examples:
				Collected and delivered feedback
				Discussed career options and areas of interest informally
				Hosted a Floodgate Academy intern
		Formally supports and advocates for one person and provides tools to help them solve career problems
			signals:
				Ensure a group member has an appropriate role on their team
				Offers effective career advice to group members, without being prescriptive
				Creates space for people to talk through challenges
			examples:
				Set up and attended regular, constructive 1:1s
				Provided coaching on how to have difficult conversations
				Taught group members the GROW model
		Inspires and retains a small group of people and actively pushes them to stretch themselves
			signals:
				Discusses paths, and creates plans for personal and professional growth
				Advocates to align people with appropriate roles within organization
				Works with team leads to elevate emerging leaders
			examples:
				Reviewed individual group member progression every 6 weeks
				Suggested appropriate group member for Tech Lead position
				Arranged a requested switch of discipline for a group member
		Manages interactions and processes between groups, promoting best practices and setting a positive example
			signals:
				Manages team transitions smoothly, respecting team and individual needs
				Develops best practices for conflict resolution
				Ensures all group members' roles are meeting their career needs
			examples:
				Completed training on situational leadership
				Built a resourcing plan based on company, team, and individual goals
				Prevented regretted attrition with intentional, targeted intervention
		Supports the development of a signficant part of the engineering org, and widely viewed as a trusted advisor
			signals:
				Supports and develops senior leaders
				Identified leadership training opportunities for senior leadership
				Pushes everyone to be as good as they can be, with empathy
			examples:
				Provided coaching to group leads
				Devised Pathwise curriculum for group leads
				Advocated to execs for engineer development resources and programs
	Evangelism
		Represents Medium well externally, and influences individuals positively
			signals:
				Shares personal and organizational successes with their network
				Attends Medium-hosted events and talks with guests
				Communicates genuine and honest excitement about their work externally
			examples:
				Shared a Medium product launch post on Facebook
				Acted as a guide for a non-friend visitor to the office
				Supported PR efforts by giving a quote or having a photo taken
		Participates more centrally in small events, and takes simple actions that positively influence groups of people
			signals:
				Takes meaningful action to introduce people to Medium
				Joined public Slack group and represented Medium appropriately, and well
				Organizes positive small- or medium-sized events that bring people to Medium
			examples:
				Volunteered as a helper for CODE2040 writing workshop
				Organized a short tour of the office by college students
				Talked at a Women Who Code event hosted at Medium
		Works hard to positively influence large groups of people on their views of Medium
			signals:
				Mentors or participates in a high visibility way in an external organization
				Builds fruitful partnerships with external organizations
				Writes blog posts about Medium that receive moderate traffic
			examples:
				Represented Medium on a panel at a conference of industry experts
				Established close ties with Creative Commons
				Built a durable, long-standing relationship with Code2040
		Establishes Medium as an great, innovative company and workplace to the whole industry
			signals:
				Establishes themself as an industry thought leader who attracts talent
				Publishes material about Medium's organizational or technical innovations
				Leverages significant following to evangelise Medium
			examples:
				Published a paper on Medium technology in a peer-reviewed journal
				Authored joint-press release with EFF on DNT
				Published “Why Content Editable Is Terrible” on the Medium engineering blog
		Introduces Medium in a positive light to a wider audience outside the industry
			signals:
				Delivers key messages to broad, mainstream audiences
				Influences people with large audiences to talk about Medium positively
				Drives recognition and adoption of Medium in significant numbers
			examples:
				Published or interviewed in a mainstream newspaper or website outside tech
				Keynoted a conference with international attention
				Represented Medium in national televised media
	Community
		Is available and present on current teams, and works to contribute positively to company culture
			signals:
				Participates in team activities and offsites
				Treats colleagues and clients with respect
				Joins groups or committees outside regular duties
			examples:
				Joined and actively participated in the web client guild
				Brought a small gift back from vacation for the team
				Wrote entertaining and informative Prod Ops writeups on Hatch
		Steps up, builds connectedness, and takes concrete actions to promote an inclusive culture
			signals:
				Makes space for others to participate
				Collaborates with other engineers outside direct responsibilities
				Finds ways to ramp up and engage new hires quickly
			examples:
				Created onboarding bingo
				Brought shy and introverted people into a dominant conversation
				Volunteered as secretary for a team
		Contributes to improving team relatedness, and helps build a culture of lending support
			signals:
				Takes on additional Watch shifts at short notice
				Pitches in to help other teams hit deadlines, without missing own deadlines
				Uses position to raise difficult issues on someone's behalf
			examples:
				Lead Watch cycles with little support while still contributing to projects
				Started and drove the LGBTQIA ERG
				Stayed positive and improved team morale during period after layoffs
		Exemplifies selflessness for the team without compromising responsibilities, and lifts everyone up
			signals:
				Goes above and beyond on the Watch, serving the team without complaint
				Implements concrete programs to signficantly improve team inclusivity
				Takes on large amounts of tedious grunt work for the team without being asked
			examples:
				Devoted large amount of time to helping outside direct responsibilities
				Refactored hundreds of legacy Shepherd nodes
				Acted as sole maintainer of Boxen for years
		Lives the company values, guards positive culture, and defines policies that support relatedness between teams
			signals:
				Brings separate teams together to build relatedness
				Holds individuals, teams, and leadership accountable to Medium's values
				Sets the tone, policy, and goals around maintaining an inclusive company
			examples:
				Organized wine and olive tasting offsite to Napa for the whole engineering org
				Devised, delivered and acted on findings from an engineer happiness survey
				Challenged and corrected exclusionary behaviour or policies
	Recruiting
		Brings new candidates into the pipeline and understands how to evaluate candidates at Medium
			signals:
				Reviews existing network for hiring leads regularly
				Shadows interviews to gain familiarity with process
				Reviews current job postings regularly
			examples:
				Completed interview calibration
				Set up casual sessions to practice asking questions
				Referred appropriate individuals for open positions
		Interviews regularly, helps the team make meaningful hiring decisions, and helps build a diverse pipeline
			signals:
				Uses interview rubric to provide clear, objective feedback on candidates
				Interviews candidates with empathy and treats them all with equal respect
				Researches approaches for sourcing candidates and diversifying hiring
			examples:
				Added observable evidence for every rating
				Started a monthly brunch for candidates to meet Medium employees
				Tested a new service for quality and diversity of candidates
		Maintains and strengthens the integrity of the current process, and regularly brings in great candidates
			signals:
				Teaches new interviewers how to interview with empathy
				Models great interview technique and feedback when shadowed
				Reverse shadows trainees and helps calibrate their feedback
			examples:
				Wrote new interview question which meets our question quality criteria
				Brought candidates into our pipeline proactively, with a high conversion rate
				Proposed useful, tangible improvements to the interview process
		Actively contributes to and leads hiring decisions, and goes to great lengths to source great candidates
			signals:
				Documents subtle cues in interviews that indicate values alignment
				Makes hiring decisions, resolving discrepancies between conflicting reports
				Top-grades candidates and teases out character traits
			examples:
				Planned engineering summit on interview process and training
				Organized and lead Medium's presence at a recruitment fair
				Started CODE2040 internship program
		Sets recruitment strategy, invests in long-term relationships for critical roles, and recruits at scale
			signals:
				Sets the tone, policy and goals around building a diverse, high-quality team
				Identifies and brings in promising acquisitions
				Tracks industry activity, identifying opportunities for critical roles
			examples:
				Talked with a senior candidate over many months to fill a critical role
				Organized efforts around convincing acquired engineers to join and stay
				Set goals, then tracked and reported metrics on team demographics over time
	Mentorship
		Informally mentors individuals in an ad-hoc way, supports new hires, and conveys institutional knowledge
			signals:
				Makes themself available for informal support and advice
				Acts as sounding board for peers and more junior members
				Provides sound advice when asked
			examples:
				Acted as an onboarding buddy
				Paired with an engineer to help them with an unfamiliar area
				Helped a colleague understand their feelings
		Mentors people proactively, and guides people to realizations rather than providing the answer
			signals:
				Takes time to explain concepts and best practices
				Asks questions to illuminate concepts, rather than stating them
				Allows others to lead efforts when it will help their development
			examples:
				Shared interesting article with a team member to help with their growth
				Offered unprompted feedback to help growth, with empathy
				Lead from behind to support someone new to a leadership role
		Teaches small groups of engineers and contributes to Medium's shared knowledge base
			signals:
				Avoids siloing information when it can be usefully shared with others
				Works to increase the bus factor of systems
				Finds tools that work best for a team member's personality
			examples:
				Gave a brown bag presentation on payments
				Wrote Hatch post on avoiding RDS backfill issues
				Wrote Medium-U content module
		Encourages people to mentor each other, and creates ways for them to do so
			signals:
				Defines an entire curriculum for a discipline
				Draws positive attention to well-modeled mentor and teaching behaviours
				Creates brown bag series and lines up speakers
			examples:
				Created and lead Medium's Women in Eng group
				Organized an Eng All Hands with an outside speaker
				Designed and taught web client guild curriculum
		Instills and promotes a culture of learning and development within the team
			signals:
				Sets incentive structures to recognise and reward mentorship
				Empowers team members to develop themselves
				Role models productive and healthy mentor relationships
			examples:
				Instituted the professional education budget for engineers
				Mentored mentors
				Started the eng advisor program and lined up external mentors