Engineering Org Failures - crccheck/crccheck.github.io GitHub Wiki

Lagging hiring cycles. It takes months to get candidates through the pipeline. A lagging hiring cycle is setting yourself up to fail because you end up hiring months after you needed your engineers. Your interviewers get rusty.

No standardization. Makes it harder to onboard.

Letting "weird" things flourish. Creates tribal knowledge silos. Again, makes it harder to onboard.

Not knowing how to deal with experimentation. Balancing with the "weird" things. Engineers like to build green-field projects. Learn how to extract learnings in a sustainable way.