Leveraging Your Peers as a Staff Plus Engineer: Building Peer Groups
summary
A staff‑plus peer group at MongoDB uses a private Slack channel, Google Group, twice‑monthly Zooms and occasional dinners and invites members across the company to collaborate. It invites 60 people, has 50 people in Slack and averages ~10 attendees per call. The group shares articles, runs tech talks and a mentorship program, is peer‑run and lightweight, and delivers concrete outcomes: problem solving, sympathetic feedback and cross‑company perspective.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:46Early peer group experiences
- 3:10Staff engineer peer group
- 6:17Key principles for peer groups
- 10:09Call to action
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