engineering manager

“12 people is sort of the upward limit of where most people can manage effectively. You know, six to 12 with eight kind of being the sweet spot is just kind of how much most people can sort of juggle the amount of context you need for each individual in order t…”

“Actually, one of the early stereotypes about engineering managers in our industry is as the shit umbrella, you know, just gonna keep people from being distracted by all the crazy. And what that is, is those teams end up just drifting off. You know, you talk ab…”

“Yeah, we don't have engineering managers. We have around like. 30 to 34 engineers. We do have leads. Obviously we have leaders in the In the team, but you know, we don't have this engineering manager role. Everyone is always, like, contributing, writing code. …”

“Traditionally you've got solutions engineers, you've got customer success staff, sales, AE, they talk to customers. Maybe the SE here is a good idea. They communicate that to a product manager. Product manager talks to the engineering manager about that. Maybe…”

“If you want to be able to really, like, accelerate through one of those steep technology inflections, The people who generally know the best about the technology are actually the ICs. So you have to, like, elevate them, you have to, like, protect them, you hav…”