engineering manager

“So I think like 10, 12 years ago, everyone expected that they would have scrum masters and scrum masters have like largely in many companies just kind of disappeared. But then you think, well, where did that responsibility go? Because someone has to do Project…”

“I advise engineering managers at Stripe that they should do an engineer occasion sometime in their first quarter to six months at the company gives you a tremendous amount of context for what your teams are actually experiencing. And then for folks who do it o…”

“Do you know your engineering manager's birthday? It's the day they showed up in the world. It's the most important day for them. It's the day they showed up in the world in the world. Do you know their birthday? Do you know their work anniversary? Do you know …”

“Like a lot of engineering managers are spending half their time or more hiring like 18 months ago, and now they're doing like two interviews a month or less, maybe zero interviews a month.”

“Essentially everyone, every engineer is turning into an EM, engineering manager, coordinating all of these junior AI engineers.”

“Would you rather have access could you rather have, give everyone on the team, like very expensive. Coding agent subscriptions, or you get an extra head count, right? Let's say it's like maybe like and almost everyone could say the managers could say head coun…”

“Every time you see a bug, every time you see a bug, not most of the time, every time you go and you drop it at the feet of the product manager or the engineering manager, every time. In public, preferably.”

“My sense is I think managers will be able to manage much larger teams in this world. Kind of like how, you know, like software engineers are managing 20 to 30 codexes. My sense of these tools will allow managers, people manage to be higher leverage and will al…”

“On the manager front, I think giving time for managers that join to be able to go deep and to do that before supporting people. And then they actually like end up building really great rapport with the team. Like, because if not, I think sometimes as managers,…”

“So the idea of like engineering manager light For want of a better term is the thing that I'm definitely think that we'll see more and more of. It's like not quite the technical member of staff, although that must be lovely. But certainly not the kind of like …”