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How engineering managers can effectively support engineers, teams, and organizations

CircleCI

The typical job description for many engineering manager roles is action-packed. It is a mix of hands-on coding, technical leadership and decision making, process and project management, product oversight, people management, finding and hiring talent … the list goes on. Give feedback for growth.

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Bringing an AI Product to Market

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

For example, many companies use recommendation engines to boost sales. But if your product is highly specialized, customers may come to you knowing what they want, and a recommendation engine just gets in the way. For example, for a mobile phone app that uses object detection to identify pets, speed is a requirement.

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How Buffer.com Develops Engineering Leadership Skills From Day 1 With Katie Womersley

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Glossier’s a great example of having built up their customer base and become a really large, really successful company almost entirely through Instagram. Do you feel like that… I love that example you gave of a leadership skill, very concrete, that a junior engineer could start to practice with.