The Engineering Manager

It’s more important than ever to be in the details of what’s going on in your organization. Are you? In recent years companies have been flattening, creating fewer layers of management between the top and the bottom of the org chart. This is a reversal of the rapid growth during the zero interest-rate policy (ZIRP) phase during COVID-19, which created a glut of new managers under which to slot newly hired engineers. Efficiency is the play now. Tech companies […]

As you begin to lead organizations that are of a reasonable size, such as in the hundreds of engineers, you will find that staffing is one of the most repetitive and challenging aspects of your job. Ensuring that you have enough people focused on the right things, with the right skills, and in the right places is a never-ending task. It is also by definition unsatisfiable: you will never have enough people to do everything […]