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An Engineering Manager’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities)

Honeycomb

Or, the small crisis with engineering management. In 2018, Honeycomb co-founder & CTO Charity Majors wrote a blog post titled, “An Engineer’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities).” When it was originally posted, back in 2018, it was timely. I’m also no longer primarily a line manager myself.

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Introducing Engineering Management to a Growing Organization

Gitprime

With that, the argument that they should put a people-managers on their payroll, where it sounds like their only job is for them to tell other people what to do, feels like a real waste.”. At Raw Signal Group , Nightingale conducts leadership and management training with hundreds of fast-growing tech companies.

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Scaling Organizational Empathy With Box’s VPE, Saminda Wijegunawardena

Gitprime

Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” Therefore, empathy truly is within a manager’s domain. We started hiring remote folks, and we wanted to reduce that abstraction,” he says. Create intimacy for both distributed and co-located teams. Use high-touch onboarding.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

I believe this human-centered approach is a big part of what’s helped us attract so many amazing new hires. We’ve doubled the size of the company this year, with growth on all fronts: engineering, product, design, marketing, sales. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

I believe this human-centered approach is a big part of what’s helped us attract so many amazing new hires. We’ve doubled the size of the company this year, with growth on all fronts: engineering, product, design, marketing, sales. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant.

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Mentorship, Coaching, and Sponsorship — A Powerful Framework for Building Resilient Teams

Gitprime

Taking on an engineering leadership role can be disorienting for fresh recruits from the engineering ranks and seasoned veterans alike. Hogan spent more than a decade leveling up engineering organizations and growing leaders at companies like Etsy (as an Engineering Director) and Kickstarter (as VP of Engineering).

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Rise of the Resilient Manager with Lara Hogan

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Like it’s exciting to have this new opportunity, new sets of skills to develop, but also, it’s a lot of responsibility, and people get no training. So normally, the way I support managers is like writing and coaching and those kinds of things, but like I am not their manager. I don’t know what I’m doing.