Etsy’s 2020 Three Armed Sweater Award goes to Kate Cronin! This award celebrates a person or team who experiences a surprising mishap – and finds an innovative solution – that helps the entire organization to evolve and improve. It demonstrates our willingness to embrace moments of struggle on the path to success – a key value of ours in the continued use of complex systems and development of complex outputs. Kate’s story is a nail-biter, involving a tiny code change that unexpectedly brought down Etsy.com. All of her coworkers rallied around her to help get the site back online, while offering words of encouragement and reassurance. “The fact that Etsy saw this incident as a chance to learn and grow is a testament to a culture of blamelessness, positivity, and collaboration. I hope never to do anything that warrants a Three-Armed Sweater Award again, but when it was announced several months later that I'd won, I was so incredibly proud and thankful to be an Etsy engineer.” A round of applause for Kate! #LifeAtEtsy #engineeringatetsy
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2yEtsy who has the actual three armed sweater?