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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. What do engineers need to thrive at work?

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Incident Review: Meta-Review, August 2020

Honeycomb

But every once in a while, teams or systems hit an inflection point where enough things change at once and the pattern of incidents shifts. Our on-call engineer became aware of the issue when he was paged by an SLO burn alert. This is the portion of our query engine that runs queries against S3-based storage — typically older data.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

Honeycomb

This post is part of a short series about my experience in the VP of Engineering role at Honeycomb. In February of 2020, I was promoted from Director of Engineering to Honeycomb’s first VP of Engineering. Not the plan I didn’t join Honeycomb with the goal of becoming an engineering executive.

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The CIO’s primary job: Developing future IT leaders

CIO

But it is equally vital to identify those people who can develop into managers and create a path forward for them as well. The best salesperson does not always make the best sales manager. The most innovative engineer does not always become the most successful engineering manager.

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Galileo emerges from stealth to streamline AI model development

TechCrunch

A separate Gartner report found that only 53% of projects make it from prototypes to production, presumably due in part to errors — a substantial loss, if one were to total up the spending. Galileo monitors the AI development processes, leveraging statistical algorithms to pinpoint potential points of system failure.

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Hardest tech roles to fill (+ solutions!)

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

It’s likely because this job requires a plethora of skills such as strong communication to interact with clients, reviewing code, mentoring when required, a high level of foresight and vision, and more. Defines architecture, infrastructure, general layout of the system, technologies, and frameworks. Management skills .

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Now In Tech: AI, Assessments, And The Great Over-Correction

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

What remains to be seen is if it’ll have a lasting impact on how we hire engineering talent, similar to the move to remote hiring post-pandemic. Companies across the board are reviewing their team structures, looking for removable cushioning, cutting down on middle management, and wanting to do more with less.