Cate Huston
Cate is an Engineering Director at DuckDuckGo.
Cate is an Engineering Director at DuckDuckGo and an advisor at Glowforge. She previously worked at Automattic, where she led the mobile, Jetpack, and Developer Experience teams. Cate admins the New-(ish) Manager Slack and writes regularly for Quartz.
The Engineering Leader: Strategies for Scaling Teams and Yourself: Cate Huston in conversation
In this episode, Cate discusses how to supercharge your career as a leader and thrive in your current role whilst supporting your team members.
What's my job again? Developing self-management
The more we move up the org chart, the less input we'll get from our own managers, and the more we need to expand our range as a leader to be successful.
Onboarding: setting the foundation for growth
Cate Huston talks about onboarding for retention through the dual lenses of belonging and accomplishment at LeadDev Together.
Coachability: the overlooked factor in people development
How do your reports respond to feedback?
Imperfect processes: navigating the fuzzier parts
Challenges our panellists have faced and different ways they have overcome them.
The culture of process
Let’s talk about a different mindset to process - process as a tool for creating change.
Empowering your engineering team with an effective decision-making process
What does a good decision look like? How do you get there?
Recognizing and rectifying your mistakes as an engineering leader
Openly acknowledging and accepting our faults
Leading your engineering team with ‘experiments’ not ‘processes’
Curing the fear of the process monster
12 steps to becoming a better engineering interviewer
An email in your inbox. A conversation with your boss. The company is hiring and you’re to be part of it – you’re going to be an interviewer.
Running An Effective Mobile Engineering Team
Organisations often worry about their mobile teams. Sometimes they are a bit separate. There's often this inexplicable hostility to mentions of "React Native".
