Solving Engineering Problems with DuckDuckGo’s Cate Huston

Cate Huston shares what she’s learned leading engineering teams at DuckDuckGo, Automattic, and Google. We talk about the challenges of hiring directors, what makes DuckDuckGo weird, supporting team happiness vs. team effectiveness, the quagmire of trying to measure team velocity, and the tradeoffs inherent in cross-platform app development.<ul>
<li><a href="https://cate.blog/">Cate’s blog</a></li>
<li><a href="https://cate.blog/2022/04/25/escaping-the-house-elf-management-trap/">Cate’s article on servant leadership</a></li>
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