I have always had a passion for learning and development, fostered through my time in the Navy in the Nuclear Engineering field.<p>However, I stayed away from L&D in the corporate world because of the general bad reputation they always seemed to have (in HR...just 'trainers not educators, not technical, etc.)<p>At Rackspace, for quite some time, I ran a portion of the product org building OpenStack products/services before moving officially into L&D and built a 31 person global L&D team. I would say the success of the team was having an entrepreneurial mindset (learning experiences, NOT training) and having a team that understood the tech.<p>So, here's the question: What tech companies have great L&D teams and why? I want to understand what makes them great and hopefully collaborate.<p>Thank you!!!!
This expertise may also be found in technical marketing or developer relations teams.<p>It's worth exploring the business models which justify the creation of "learning" content, e.g. why does YC fund HN? DigitalOcean created devops/admin tutorials to increase demand for low-cost VPS at shared-hosting price points.<p>Do Minecraft, makeup & other How-To videos (advertising biz model) on YouTube count? If companies could earn YouTube revenue for high-quality training videos (general principles + product specifics), would this increase overall supply of quality self-learning material?
Developer Relations is really a good place to go. Google is hiring a lot of folks for their Cloud Platform to help evangelize. I would recommend check them out.