Interviews with Software Managers
About transitioning from development to management
Jonathan Bull, CEO & Co-founder at EmailOctopus
“Programming will always be where I feel most comfortable, but ultimately I’m rewarded by seeing the company grow.”
April 15, 2019 · #email-marketing #entrepreneurship #remote
Ray Wenderlich, Co-founder at raywenderlich.com
“I could either change my actions (stop being a manager and get back to programming), or I could change my identity (and think of myself as a manager/leader/entrepreneur).”
April 01, 2019 · #distributed-teams #education #mobile #remote
“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