You can't always get what you want
summary
A year-long effort creates a front-end practice at Indeed starting from one engineer, with concrete wins: a 90th percentile rendering time in India drops from ~8s to ~3–4s; an intern-focused component library and tooling bootstraps interest so roughly one third of 80–90 summer hires opt into front-end work; allies in QA and release engineering supply cross-product leverage; the library works but adoption stalls without UX/product alignment; priorities, a sponsor, and targeting flagship experiences decide success.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 0:54Building front-end culture
- 3:23Unique situational factors
- 6:33Introducing eight lessons
- 7:16Lessons for driving change
- 28:54The transition challenge
- 29:33Working with existing culture
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