STRIPE AND FACEBOOK

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

Raylene Yung became an engineering manager at Facebook in 2011. She then moved to Stripe and watched it grow from 200 to over 1,500 employees over the next four years. Yung built Stripe’s product management team, defined career growth and recruiting frameworks, ran the core Payments business, and spun up the company’s global engineering hub in Singapore. This article features an interview with Yung where she discusses career growth for engineers. In the interview, Yung shares career lessons and covers roadblocks that can appear at every stage of an engineering career. She also provides guiding questions to help readers make the right decisions.