Should engineering managers write code? Wrong question.

By eleith

I spend a lot of my time advising engineering managers and “How much code should I write?” gets asked by a lot of folks new to the role.

Creating an Engineering Vision

In this blog post, we share how we drafted a three-year engineering…

How our Skills Graph is helping learners find the right content to reach their goals

At Coursera, we use data to power our product and better serve our learners. One example is our Skills Graph —a series of algorithms connecting learners, content, and careers through a…

Improving End-to-End Testing at Coursera using Puppeteer and Jest

Data Driven Content Categorization

How Coursera generated course categories from thousands of courses…

Order from Chaos: Understanding Search Queries through Vectors

The Query2Vec pipeline and a foray into…

Controlled Regression: Quantifying the Impact of Course Quality on Learner Retention

An engineer’s perspective on engineering and data science collaboration for data products

Evolving the Graph

We’ve been using GraphQL at Coursera for over three years, and we’ve learned a lot…

Webpack 3 to 4: Facing the known unknowns and unknown unknowns