Interviews with Managers in Software
About transitioning from development to management
“You will get a surprisingly long way if you show up and try and be decent to everyone around you every day.”
Alexander von Franqué, Author at Hiring Engineers
“Work hard on constantly improving yourself, listen more than you speak and most importantly, practice empathy.”
#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.”
#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.”
Ahmed El Gabri, Principal Software Developer (JavaScript) 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.”