“I had 30 people and one manager was managing like four or five of them. And then I was directly managing, say, like 23, 24 people. The first thing I did was like, all right, what are some pods and figuring out like some areas I could put together who could own areas.”
The Pragmatic Engineer · The revised rules of engineering management with Will Larson
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What was described
Reorganized a 30-person team at Stripe into small pods, then stopped micromanaging the pods and only intervened when something went wrong
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“On the first runs, I have a lot of stops… then I start to remove the guardrails… the first time you micromanage, then you feel confident you remove most of the guardrails.”
“A pod is a pre-manufactured nuclear power plant. It has five reactors and three steam turbines so that you can run at full nameplate capacity even after one turbine trips offline”
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Why it worked5 reactors, 3 turbines, 50 MW per pod, 20 pods = 100 reactorsShare this moment
“I put out 913 pieces of content today ... I have a 30 person team ... salary of that team this year is going to be 6.4 million dollars.”
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How they work913 pieces; 30-person team; $6.4 million annual salary for the teamShare this moment
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