I was pretty baffled when I first learnt about Netflix’s philosophy of hiring exclusively senior software engineers. What? No room for my beloved new grads or mid level engineers? How very square of them!**
I recently left my job as an engineering manager at Lyft. As I’m mulling over my last 2 years in engineering leadership, I’ve come to obsess over what I call the “inverted triangle” team composition problem in tech. One of the…