Archive - Engineering Leadership

Startups Should Evaluate Engineers Differently From Big Companies

Use a Big Tech hiring process, get a Big Tech engineer. But is that what your startup needs?

Mar 15 • Gregor Ojstersek and Neil Matthams

Inside OpenAI: How They Hire, Onboard, Promote, and Build Elite Engineering Teams

Insights on how OpenAI does hiring, onboarding, growing their people Based on my conversation with the Head of Engineering, ChatGPT at OpenAI

Mar 12 • Gregor Ojstersek

How Engineering Managers Can Turn Team Growth Into Visible Impact

Step-by-step guide to tracking the signals of your team's growth and communicating them so your impact is visible.

Mar 8 • Gregor Ojstersek and Alex Ponomarev

Inside OpenAI's Engineering Culture: How the Teams Behind ChatGPT Work

Insights from my conversation with the Head of Engineering, ChatGPT at OpenAI

Mar 5 • Gregor Ojstersek

The Evolution of Software Engineering Productivity

From computing power as the bottleneck to human judgment as the constraint. This is how the software engineering productivity has evolved over the…

Mar 1 • Gregor Ojstersek and Fran Soto

February 2026

Software Engineering is Becoming Position-Less

Similar to the trend in basketball, where everyone can play any position, the same trend is becoming more common in software engineering

Feb 26 • Gregor Ojstersek

How OpenAI's Codex Team Works and Leverages AI

Insights on how OpenAI's Codex team works, leverages AI, their team structure, development philosophy, and more. Based on my conversation with the…

Feb 22 • Gregor Ojstersek

How to Build AI-Native Engineering Teams

Insights from my conversation with the Engineering Lead at OpenAI Codex team

Feb 18 • Gregor Ojstersek

Learning Tracks: Become an Engineering Multiplier

Learning tracks have been completely revamped to help you become an Engineering Multiplier!

Feb 15 • Gregor Ojstersek

The Tension Between Technical and Less-Technical People Because of AI

3 most common examples of tension I am seeing + my advice to resolve them!

Feb 12 • Gregor Ojstersek

96% Engineers Don’t Fully Trust AI Output, Yet Only 48% Verify It

Latest report: How engineers use AI, do they trust it, and top AI tools

Feb 9 • Gregor Ojstersek

Building Social Capital: Guide for Engineers and Engineering Leaders

You should build social capital daily, not when you need it. This is why!

Feb 5 • Gregor Ojstersek

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