Growth Hacks
are aimed at tackling well understood problems that have big growth opportunities. For example, improving the efficiency of our engineering systems or improving the user engagement on a major segment. Growth hacks are tracked at the VP level, so it’s a great way to have a major impact on the direction of our organization.
BingCubator
is a forum where entrepreneurs can pitch an idea that is large enough for funding. Their ideas funnel through an incubation process that is managed by a v-team before they can present them to upper management for funding.
Hack Days
closely model engineer’s typical daily interactions, though are designed to allow them to shelve their normal deliverables temporarily and pursue something outside their area of expertise.
The most important guiding principle for us is that a feature idea can come from anywhere. While we still receive strong guidance from above (top-down), and feature teams develop features in the normal way (bottom-up), we built out systems to allow ideas to come from anywhere.
We organize our engineering ecosystem into an efficient idea funnel, where we make it easy to iterate on ideas with end users at the top so we can churn through as many ideas as possible.
Growth Hacks
are aimed at tackling well understood problems that have big growth opportunities. For example, improving the efficiency of our engineering systems or improving the user engagement on a major segment. Growth hacks are tracked at the VP level, so it’s a great way to have a major impact on the direction of our organization.
BingCubator
is a forum where entrepreneurs can pitch an idea that is large enough for funding. Their ideas through an incubation process that is managed by a v-team before they can present them to upper management for funding.
Hack Days
closely model engineer’s typical daily interactions, though are designed to allow them to shelve their normal deliverables temporarily and pursue something outside their area of expertise.
The most important guiding principle for us is that a feature idea can come from anywhere. While we still receive strong guidance from above (top-down), and feature teams develop features in the normal way (bottom-up), we built out systems to allow ideas to come from anywhere.
We organize our engineering ecosystem into an efficient idea funnel, where we make it easy to iterate on ideas with end users at the top so we can churn through as many ideas as possible.