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A New Kid's Perspective on Digg's Engineering Culture

blog.digg.com — As one of the most recent additions to Digg’s engineering team, I thought I would share with you some of what it’s like to work at a place that’s doing some really innovative and exciting things on the Web. When I joined Digg a little over six months ago, I had no idea what to expect. Coming from an organization of 15,000+ employees at Yahoo...

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  • joestump, on 11/12/2009, -0/+7Really glad I suckered Chris into joining Digg. Knowing he was on board, along with the other people on the infrastructure team (Arin, Ian, Sammy, etc), made the decision to leave easier. Digg is in *very* good hands.
  • brendon2020, on 11/12/2009, -0/+3our move to git has really helped us as well, svn is at best a nightmare for merging. nice post.
  • blink21, on 11/12/2009, -0/+3hey digg team - you have a lot to be proud of. really glad to see this post on culture. so important.
  • saurabhsahni, on 11/12/2009, -0/+2Awesome post Chris! Glad to know about digg's culture :-)
  • hank22, on 11/13/2009, -0/+1Cool post, its made me want to look into more engineering, thinking ahead more about projects rather than churn out the code. I'd like to read more such blogs on how not only digg but other start-ups deal with building the company and its infrastructure.
  • MtheoryX, on 11/12/2009, -0/+1And, god forbid you still have to work with any svn repositories, you can transparently do that with git as well.

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