After spending over a decade in engineering leadership roles at some of the world’s most chaotic innovation factories—Google, Facebook, and Netflix—I’ve learned one universal truth: scaling engineering teams is like raising teenagers. They grow fast, develop personalities of their own, and if you don’t set boundaries, suddenly they’re setting the house on fire at 3am.

The difference between teams that thrive at scale and those that collapse into Slack-thread anarchy typically comes down to three key factors:

— Structured goal-setting
— A ruthless focus on code quality
— Intentional culture building

Let me share some lessons I learned from scaling teams at Google, Facebook, and Netflix. — Read More