Aspiring team lead?

Six tips on how to meet deadlines and develop your team When I became a team lead for the first time, I started going to lots of conferences and reading deep books on team management. I was reading all about what I should be and how I should develop, but it was still not clear to me what exactly I should…

A Beginners Guide to Deploys and Releases

The process of releasing software to users at scale is one that can be particularly confusing for new software engineers, as most don’t have exposure to this part of the software development process until their first internship or job. I found this to be the case during my time at…

Three-day no-meeting schedule for engineers

About 100 days ago, our product engineering team began experimenting with a three-day no-meeting schedule for individual contributors on our teams. It’s not a big revelation that software development requires long stretches of uninterrupted time to focus. As Pinterest has grown…

Introducing Project DASH

By David Kastelman, Business Operations Manager (SF), Andrew Susanto, Operations Associate (LA), Elle Pak, Strategy and Operations Manager (NY) We’re thrilled to kick off Project DASH (DoorDash Acts for…

Rebuilding the Segment Leaderboards Infrastructure — Part 2: First Principles of a New System