Gergely Orosz

Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) is a software engineer and writer on engineering management and the tech industry whose posts Kyle saved and cited. He refers to his newsletter as The Pragmatic Engineer. He appears in the wiki in three roles:

• Commentator on tech-industry labor. Kyle cites his posts in essays: a thread on HelloFresh’s “forced performance management” in The Renaissance of Rise and Grind; a take that large-company layoff headlines are over-blown as a negative signal in Thinning The Herd; and a post defending DHH’s company as having made “outstanding amounts of money” while paying its employees well, in What Is An Extraordinary Man. Saved tweets include his claim that the week of January 20, 2023 was an inflection point when Big Tech lost its former attractiveness (We’ll look back at this… (tweet)) and an observation that the worst product and engineering executives refuse to write their strategy and goals down (The Worst Product and Engineering… (tweet)).
• Critic of how companies communicate failure. His critique of Atlassian’s postmortem for withholding the number of affected users is summarized on Atlassian and filed under Post-Mortems (Atlassian Published Their Postmorten on… (tweet)).
• Source of reading recommendations. He recommended Principles of Building AI Agents (“short, sweet and practical”) and You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song by Glenn McDonald, both now on the anti-library.

His 2022 thread on researching a startup founder’s past before engaging is filed under Due Diligence.

Where this appears

• Plenty of News About Fast… (tweet)