Interviews with Software Managers
About transitioning from development to management
Cate Huston, Developer Experience Lead at Automattic
“You will get a surprisingly long way if you show up and try and be decent to everyone around you every day.”
March 04, 2019 · #distributed-teams #mobile
Alexander von Franqué, Author at Hiring Engineers
“Work hard on constantly improving yourself, listen more than you speak and most importantly, practice empathy.”
February 18, 2019 · #augmented-reality #frontend #product #startup #systems-programming
Kim Moir, Engineering Manager at Mozilla
“It is a completely different job than a software developer individual contributor with a completely different skill set. It is a steep learning curve but I feel like I’m learning something new every day.”
January 14, 2019 · #build-engineering #distributed-systems #distributed-teams #open-source #remote
Steffen Wenz, CTO at TrustYou GmbH
“Learning management skills will make you a more well-rounded employee, human being and maybe even set you up for entrepreneurship.”
January 07, 2019 · #data-science #natural-language-processing #product #web
Ahmed El Gabri, Principal Software Developer at Lightspeed
“First, be a good listener and second, understand how to send a message in a way that the other person will understand it in the way that you want.”
December 17, 2018 · #frontend #product #self-taught #web