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Behaviors:

  • You take responsibility rather than pass the buck
  • You write
  • You establish expectations
  • You love 1:1s

Skills:

Table-stakes

  • Ability to find/attract, hire, and retain a strong engineering team that can execute on the company's vision and priorities.
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ericxtang / ladder.md
Created June 9, 2017 16:40 — forked from jamtur01/ladder.md
Kickstarter Engineering Ladder
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ericxtang / latency.txt
Created April 3, 2017 19:56 — forked from jboner/latency.txt
Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
Latency Comparison Numbers
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L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict 5 ns
L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD