Scaling Your Engineering team After Series A: An Interview with Lemonade's SVP of R&D

In the third episode of our tech lead Twitter space series, Wilco’s CEO On Freund welcomed Lemonade’s Erez Dickman to talk about scaling engineering teams after series A. 

In this session, On and Erez discuss the following:

• How to find the right people to take your organization forward. Unique challenges in finding the right talent
• How to structure the teams with future scaling in mind.
• How to build a middle management layer to support growth without sacrificing pre-scaling efficiency.
• How to avoid overhiring. 
• How to manage new talent during a period of growth.
• How to retain existing employees when the organization around them is changing. 

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Listen to the full session here:

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For startups, the way engineering teams are structured changes when the company raise funding. This is because the team needs to grow in size and also scale to other markets. Is there a right and effective way to scale your engineering team after raising funding? Well, let’s find out.