engineering manager

also referred to as: engineering managers

2 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 17, 2019 by Camille Fournier · across every show →

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Jul 17, 2019
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Fournier: Managers who only play 'management telephone' add very little value
“If you, if all you're doing is playing management telephone, your manager is adding very little value to the team. And so that's why, like, I think management is not just about people management because people management is just not all of the job.”
Camille Fournier Jul 17, 2019 ▶ 41:15 Camille Fournier on Managing Technical Teams · Y Combinator
Jul 17, 2019
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Fournier: Engineering managers cannot code their way out of delivery problems
“New managers tend to default to writing code to solve their problems. So new managers who used to be ICs, they look at a team, and they look at a team that's struggling, and the thing that they want to do is be like, I can just take some of these tickets, I ca…”
Camille Fournier Jul 17, 2019 ▶ 15:28 Camille Fournier on Managing Technical Teams · Y Combinator
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