About this episode

Lindsey Simon discusses the evolution of engineering management and career growth strategies, including the use of all-hands demos and personal projects.

Live from the Vercel recording studio, Lindsey Simon (VP Engineering @ Vercel) joins us to deconstruct the evolution of management craft and career growth strategies! We dissect the practice of live all-hands demos as a tool for context, accountability and inspiration. Plus, Lindsey’s "vote with your wallet" framework for career strategy, how Lindsey’s open source project inspired him to apply to Vercel, and why the most effective VPs are building hobby projects to maintain AI competency and empathy for non-technical users.

People in this episode

Guest: Lindsey Simon

Topics covered

• engineering management
• career growth
• all-hands demos
• accountability
• inspiration
• AI competency
• open source

Keywords

• engineering management
• career strategy
• all-hands demos
• AI competency
• open source project

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Vercel, Engineering Leadership Community

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