Tag: Culture
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DevOps Theater: When the Culture Never Actually Changed
A couple of years ago, I was brought in to assess the delivery practices of a mid-size financial services company. They had all the artifacts of a modern engineering organization: a CI/CD pipeline, infrastructure as code templates, a dedicated SRE team, Slack channels named after microservices. The CTO proudly told me they had “completed their…
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The Four Things AI Cannot Replace in the People You Hire
A few months ago, I was interviewing a candidate for a senior engineering role. Strong resume. Solid certifications. Good technical depth. Halfway through the conversation, I asked a question I always ask: “Tell me about a time you had to throw away your own work because the team found a better approach.” The silence lasted…
