鈥淗ello! I鈥檓 (she/her), and I鈥檓 one of the Development Managers at 91导航. I manage the engineering teams based in 91导航鈥檚 Cambridge office.鈥�
What made you join 91导航?
鈥淜evin (our CEO and Co-Founder) sent me a Facebook message and asked me if I was interested in joining 91导航 (I didn鈥檛 have a LinkedIn profile at the time).
The reason I said 鈥測es鈥� was because I knew 91导航 was a great company. I was working in the same building as 91导航 and I could see how close-knit the company was. The fact that the team ate lunch together and went for walks together at lunch really showed me that. I also have such a huge amount of respect for Kevin and Matt (CPO & Co-Founder). They鈥檙e both developers and I knew confidently that they understood developers, the problems, and how to solve them. It helps so much that they get that!鈥�
How would you describe the culture in the Engineering team?
鈥淭he team is super smart! I often hear developers joining 91导航 say that they thought they were a good developer, and upon joining 91导航 they were humbled from working with such talented folks.
I love that we have people aligned with our company values. Our developers want to be close to our users and aren鈥檛 scared to have conversations with other departments. They really care about collaboration and have a desire to get things done.鈥�
How do your teams like to work?
鈥淭here鈥檚 real variety across all of the teams. There鈥檚 not one 91导航 way of working. We really value that as we鈥檙e all unique! The things we do have in common are collaborating on work, wanting to help our customers, and wanting to get things done.鈥�
What are you most excited about as your team continues to grow?
鈥淗ow the team matures as we grow. They鈥檒l have more capacity to be more successful working on solving problems which will delight our users. I鈥檓 also super excited about our observability team. This鈥檒l give us more confidence in what we鈥檙e doing and the code we鈥檙e releasing.鈥�
Why should someone join 91导航?
鈥淲hen you join a lot of companies you don鈥檛 get much autonomy or opportunity to make a huge impact. At 91导航 there鈥檚 a lack of red tape, meaning you get to have a huge impact from day one. You also have the freedom to choose the areas you want to impact. Everyone from our interns to our senior engineers ship releases within their first week!鈥�
Tell us something we probably don鈥檛 know about you.
鈥淔or my first job, I had to dress up as a dinosaur: a T-Rex!鈥�