Engineering Unblocked

Building scaleups without hero culture with Andrea Corey from Homebase

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Andrea Corey is a VP of Engineering for platform engineering at Homebase.

In today’s episode, Rebecca and Andrea talk about Andrea’s experience in working at scaleups, the lessons she’s learned, the pitfalls she’s trained herself to avoid, and some of the biggest problems leaders need to solve as their organization grows.

Find the transcript at: https://www.unblocked.fm/episodes/andrea-corey-homebase/

Timestamps

(0:00) Introductions
(0:46) Andrea’s background
(4:37) Unlocking potential among teams
(7:02) About Homebase’s team strategy
(11:26) Tips to make ideas a reality
(15:20) How Andrea manages multiple teams
(18:11) Countering hero culture
(21:44) Incident handling
(25:19) Setting goals around incidents
(27:23) Avoiding past mistakes
(33:45) When to federate vs. centralize
(37:01) Who Andrea wants to be

Follow Andrea on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreacorey/

Follow Rebecca on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rmurphey/

Links and mentions

• Homebase: https://joinhomebase.com/
• FreshBooks: https://www.freshbooks.com/
• Eloqua: https://www.oracle.com/cx/marketing/automation/

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