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Oct 15 2021
Two Key Focuses (And a Checklist) For New Engineering Managers
There is very little formal guidance for new engineering managers. When I first moved from an individual contributor (IC) to an engineering manager (EM), I…
- Career Advice
- Leading People
Oct 12 2021
The importance of an onboarding buddy
"We definitely send a welcome package to our new hires, but more importantly, we pair them up with a buddy" - Shweta Saraf Shweta Saraf…
- Career Advice
- Development Process
Oct 09 2021
How to scale your Engineering team
"I believe that essentially the engineering managers are responsible for most of the progress and growth that's being done in your company" - Aviv Ben-Yosef…
- Career Advice
- Leading People
Oct 05 2021
How to go from developer to VP
"You have to learn how to establish yourself as a leader as opposed to organically just be a leader" - Brendan Burns Brendan Burns not…
- Career Advice
- Leading People
Oct 01 2021
Enable Positive Churn
Aviv Ben-Yosef talks about the issue of the tech industry trying to retain employees who have little reason to stay, and how some turnover is…
- Career Advice
- Leading People
- Hiring
Sep 29 2021
The Importance of Developer Velocity and Engineering Processes
If you want to learn from some of the best engineers and engineering minds in the business, register for INTERACT: the community-driven, digital conference designed…
- Career Advice
- Leading People
- Continuous Improvement
Sep 28 2021
Five Leadership Lessons I Learned From Microsoft, Netflix, Stack Overflow, GitLab & Equinix
Three years into my software engineering career I was loving life. I could fix anything in the codebase with no doubts in my ability. I…
- Career Advice
- Leading People
- Continuous Improvement
- Hiring
Sep 17 2021
Going from an Individual Contributor to an Engineering Manager is NOT a promotion
In my role as an engineering manager, I know making the leap from an individual contributor (IC) to engineering manager (EM) is not a promotion.…
- Career Advice
- Dev Interrupted Discord
Sep 16 2021
Why going from Dev to Engineering Manager is NOT a promotion
Anand Safi - engineering leader, mentor and coach - discusses the transition from individual contributor to engineering manager and why this transition should not be…
- Career Advice