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Engineering leadership · Hiring · Incident response
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Anonymous (H7)
Head of Engineering, Series B SaaS
Identity checked, published anonymouslyWithheldPublishing since 2026-04
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No financial interest in any product named in published cases.
Published cases (2)
HiringSoftware / SaaSFree to read
One senior engineer or two juniors on the same budget
A Series B team with one open requisition and a delivery commitment eight months out. The decision turned on who would do the mentoring, and that question had no good answer.
EngineeringSoftware / SaaS
Rewriting the billing system instead of patching it for another year
The estimate was five months. It took nine. Whether that counts as a failure depends entirely on what the patching path would have cost, and that number is unknowable.