Wren ReillySometimes I think about how to easiest way to fail an interview for a leadership position is to say you will do end user research as step one of any plan.
I wonder about the people Mozilla didn’t hire.
Reginald@akareilly I interviewed with Mozilla many years ago. In one slot, I met a senior engineer and we talked about engineering, process, development culture, and traded stories about things we had learned.
The process fizzled out, and I was not inspired by the particular tooling they were hiring for. But I regretted not working with that engineer, whom I liked and respected.
However... I ended up at PagerDuty. And on my first day, there he was: @irvingreid.
Mozilla's loss was my gain.
I always like hearing these stories. How amazing would it be for this to be the standard? Conversations about making things better instead of stemming the tide of buzzword-driven or vibe-coded projects.