Zach Lloyd

Throughout my career, the biggest mistake I see engineers make is doing too much work on their own before looping in others. I’ve experienced this mistake as both an IC and a manager. As an IC, it’s a mistake I made many, many times early in my own

There are two kinds of programmers, generally speaking. There are programmers who care more about code, and there are programmers who care more about product. The former – I’ll call them “code-first” programmers – are obsessed with how code is architected, what tools, libraries and languages are used, how much test

There’s no question that’s harder to answer as an engineer, eng manager, or PM, than “when is this project going to launch?” Honestly, the question is hard to answer because it’s hard to actually know. And generally, the bigger the project, the larger the uncertainty. This is

I love hosting engineering interns.  They get in early, they work on whatever you ask them to work on, and they usually seem to enjoy it, no matter what it is.  More often than not, they write good code, ask good questions, and make a positive contribution to the team