engineering management
3 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Sep 15, 2024 by Camille Fournier · across every show →
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Sep 15, 2024
Sep 15, 2024 negative
Fournier: Engineers cannot effectively double as product managers for very long
“The actual details and focus of the product work is just, you can't write a bunch of code or, and, or manage like a big soft software engineering team and be a product manager at the same time. That's actually just asking, I think too much of people to do that…”
Mar 1, 2026 positive
Wen: Design managers need hands-on IC rotations like engineering managers
“I think traditionally at least what I've seen a lot of like the engineering disciplines, like when they hire EMs or even sometimes like directors there, they actually make the EMs like take a rotation for a few months and pick up a few tasks. And really unders…”