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Communication Structures in a Growing Organization


When Honeycomb was a small company, All Hands meetings had announcements and discussions. Discussions mostly took place in the meeting chat, where everyone can answer anyone’s question. Betwe…

We’re increasingly international, and the Europeans are like “there goes a perfectly good week” while the Canadians sigh “nobody cares that our Thanksgiving is in October.” There’s valuable listening to do here, some clues to take to the director level and to People Ops. As a representative of Marketing, it’s important to me that our product, documentation, engineers who are speaking at conferences, and customer success people get the language consistent. It means I have to wrangle the team meeting of my developer advocates onto a specific topic–always a challenge when there’s so much kubernetes frustration and open source committee drama to rant about.

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