Zach Lloyd
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Founder and CEO of Warp, where we are building a modern Rust-based terminal. Prev: Principal Eng at Google Docs, Interim CTO at TIME, Co-founder at SelfMade.

The Google Incentive Mismatch: Problems with Promotion-Oriented Cultures

May 4, 20224 min read

Thoughts on how to avoid the promo-culture trap · If you’re an engineer at Google or Facebook, you’re likely focused on one career question: when am I...

The Google Incentive Mismatch: Problems with Promotion-Oriented Cultures

The Biggest Mistake I See Engineers Make

Jan 26, 20225 min read

Throughout my career, the biggest mistake I see engineers make is doing too much work on their own before looping in others. · Throughout my career, the...

Hiring

Mar 1, 202133 min read

How to hire engineers at an early stage startup · How to hire engineers at an early stage startup One of the hardest and most important parts of starting...

Code-first vs. Product-first

Apr 30, 20194 min read

Why I like working with user-focused engineers · There are two kinds of programmers, generally speaking. There are programmers who care more about code,...

Host Interns

Apr 28, 20196 min read

Why I love hosting engineering interns · I love hosting engineering interns.  They get in early, they work on whatever you ask them to work on, and they...

Multiply by 𝝅

Apr 19, 20197 min read

Engineering always takes longer than you think · There’s no question that’s harder to answer as an engineer, eng manager, or PM, than “when is this...