stevenklein

My b

Ideally management is working with IC teams to set good Key Results. Management shares context of what's important (objectives) and IC teams propose good quantitative measures (key results) of how they'll achieve it.

This is the crux of what's wrong with the original article IMO. Key results that are customer centric as opposed to "ship {thing}" help keep teams focused on the thing that actually matters.

Of course there will be a tendency to try to game the metric, but the flip side of having customer centric goals is teams become feature factories, building idea after idea without constantly evaluating "are the things we're shipping driving the change in customer behavior they're intended to drive".

Yeah this checks out. I forget the numbers but when we were building StatusPage I remember pulling some data on incidents and a pretty good percentage referenced or linked to another status page (usually meaning their incident was "caused" by an upstream provider).

thanks for sharing - found this super interesting

https://metrist.io/ is working on exactly this

StatusPage.io - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5401470

+1

I think all universities might be required to publish employee salary but I might be wrong.

Good question -- I personally don't know of anyone else who is doing the whole "Open Salaries" thing. Does anyone else?

That's actually a really good idea I hadn't thought of that. Thanks!

Yeah...the landing page needs work. The templates are pretty solid on smaller screens though.

Hey HN -- happy to answer any questions you have. Would love to hear your feedback!

StatusPage.io

StatusPage.io helps companies be more transparent with their customers around downtime. Companies like Atlassian, Citrix, Reddit, Cloudflare, New Relic, and Vimeo rely on our product to keep their customers in the loop when their site is down, slow, or undergoing scheduled maintenance. We're profitable, and believe in running a sustainable company with teammates that help us grow and enrich our lives.

Denver / San Francisco - Rails Engineer

Your job as a Full Stack Rails Engineer is to work on our infrastructure, and sling code for new features. Your domain is server land, ruby and rails, and all of the external services we use to keep the business running. You'll also be contributing to discussions around infrastructure architecture, performance and resilience of the system, and making sure everything is in tip top shape for us to continue to be a nimble development organization.

San Francisco - Account Executive

Your job as an Account Executive is to help scale our enterprise offering across new inbound signups, existing customers, and prospects. As one of our first Account Executives, you'll play a huge role in the growth phase of StatusPage and land some of our biggest deals to date. Numerous brownie points if you've sold to a technical audience before or understand the basics of web development, API calls, and server infrastructure.

https://jobs.lever.co/statuspageio

Check out Floobits.

I hear you on this one. The lack of commute definitely saves some time.