Common Mistakes of New Engineering Managers
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Common Mistakes of New Engineering Managers
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Re: Common Mistakes of New Engineering Managers
#2Nice read. I can also strongly recommend Rands (Michael Lopp) who has a great blog https://randsinrepose.com/ and wrote "Managing Humans" - an amazing book on the subject
Re: Common Mistakes of New Engineering Managers
#3Nice read. I can also strongly recommend Rands (Michael Lopp) who has a great blog https://randsinrepose.com/ and wrote "Managing Humans" - an amazing book on the subject
He also runs Rands Leadership Slack, which is a useful Slack community for tech leaders:
https://randsinrepose.com/welcome-to-rands-leadership-slack/
Re: Common Mistakes of New Engineering Managers
#4Nice read. I can also strongly recommend Rands (Michael Lopp) who has a great blog https://randsinrepose.com/ and wrote "Managing Humans" - an amazing book on the subject
OP here - I love Rands' works! Thanks for the link
Re: Common Mistakes of New Engineering Managers
#5Nice read. I can also strongly recommend Rands (Michael Lopp) who has a great blog https://randsinrepose.com/ and wrote "Managing Humans" - an amazing book on the subject
He also runs Rands Leadership Slack, which is a useful Slack community for tech leaders: https://randsinrepose.com/welcome-to-rands-leadership-slack/
+1 , I'm in there, it's a really nice community. Another I can recommend: https://engmanagers.github.io/
Re: Common Mistakes of New Engineering Managers
#6This sounds like the kind of role a lot of good engineers get promoted to unwillingly/unknowingly, how do you avoid being assigned this role and remain a valued engineer once you have experience?
Re: Common Mistakes of New Engineering Managers
#7This sounds like the kind of role a lot of good engineers get promoted to unwillingly/unknowingly, how do you avoid being assigned this role and remain a valued engineer once you have experience?
Yup, that's a common career path mistake companies do - making the only possible 'next step' for senior engineers to become managers. If your company doesn't have a strong career path for senior ICs, you should push for one
Re: Common Mistakes of New Engineering Managers
#8This sounds like the kind of role a lot of good engineers get promoted to unwillingly/unknowingly, how do you avoid being assigned this role and remain a valued engineer once you have experience?
Yup, that's a common career path mistake companies do - making the only possible 'next step' for senior engineers to become managers. If your company doesn't have a strong career path for senior ICs, you should push for one
Honest question -- why does there need to be a "next step?"
It's been over a decade since I've worked at a company with managers. However, it was common for the top programmers to make more money than their managers there.
Re: Common Mistakes of New Engineering Managers
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yup, that's a common career path mistake companies do - making the only possible 'next step' for senior engineers to become managers. If your company doesn't have a strong career path for senior ICs, you should push for one
Honest question -- why does there need to be a "next step?" It's been over a decade since I've worked at a company with managers. However, it was common for the top programmers to make more money than their managers there.
That's the "next step". In some companies the only way to earn top money is becoming a manager.
Re: Common Mistakes of New Engineering Managers
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yup, that's a common career path mistake companies do - making the only possible 'next step' for senior engineers to become managers. If your company doesn't have a strong career path for senior ICs, you should push for one
Honest question -- why does there need to be a "next step?" It's been over a decade since I've worked at a company with managers. However, it was common for the top programmers to make more money than their managers there.
Because of title inflation, for example.