Engineering Leadership
topic on 2 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes
3 statements about Engineering Leadership, every show
Fournier: Shifting engineers to project management is the worst leadership path
“Often they're actually pushing you to become a project manager, which is actually also the worst, you know, worst sort of path to real leadership, in my opinion.”
It takes three full years to become effective in a leadership role
“You're not, you get a new role. You're not good at it for three years.”
Tech companies dodged engineering resource allocation for a decade through overhiring
“One challenge of the last decade, right, is that resource allocation was largely dodged by many companies because they just Decided to spend more and hire more folks. And so oftentimes the real constraint was, like, hiring velocity on a given team and your abi…”