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Everything you need to know about scaling an engineering team

The do's and don'ts of rapidly scaling your team
June 27, 2022

During my first year as an engineering leader, I encountered an extreme scale-up situation.

The scale-up was a perfect example of hypergrowth, taking place within a short period of time around an aggressive deadline. When welcoming new talent and building new teams, we were trying to cram a year’s worth of experience into a couple of months. It was a crash course in what to do and not to do as you scale.

Having learned the hard way, here I’m going to walk you through my scale-up story and share my do’s and don’ts along the way.

Jellyfish

The risks of scaling up your team

Before we scaled, my team was part of a fast-paced startup, we were on the highway to success, everything was happening quickly, and things were working well.

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