Interviews with Software Managers in Web
Shawn Axsom, Senior Engineering Manager at Docker
“Your focus (and challenges) grows from your direct reports, to teams, to departments, executives, and then external customers and partnerships.”
July 05, 2021 · #backend #coaching #information-systems #web
Christoph Eicke, Team Lead at Xing GmbH
“Sometimes it's better not to know the details of the tech in order to ask the simple but effective questions to move a project forward, let alone move someone else's career forward.”
April 12, 2021 · #full-stack #linux #self-taught #web
Sam Phillips, Co-founder & CTO at Residently
“I think leadership and management are roles that have enormous potential to do a lot of good in the world - to create the inclusive, productive environments we need to build great products - and so it's worth doing well.”
March 29, 2021 · #coaching #devops #self-taught #startup #web
James Bedford, Engineering Manager at Attest
“So many wait to be given permission to lead, however there is nothing stopping you from learning good management practices no matter what seniority level you are at.”
February 15, 2021 · #consumer-research #fintech #frontend #web
Andrew Heffernan, Director of Engineering at Validity Inc
“I was definitely drinking from the firehose, but I would not trade this experience for anything.”
January 18, 2021 · #cloud #self-taught #web
Marc Littlemore, Team Lead at BBC
“You have to realise that your value comes from building and shaping a high-performing team who work well together and have a clear direction.”
October 19, 2020 · #game-development #remote #web
Dhruv Agarwal, Engineering Manager at Shuttl
“Always think about the larger picture and not just the sprint at hand. Always question the rationale behind everything you or your team does in the context of the larger goal.”
Swaathi Kakarla, Co-founder & CTO at Skcript
“People management is not like giving instructions to a program, it’s more like training an AI model! It takes time and effort, you can’t judge on the first go.”
July 13, 2020 · #elixir #product #ruby-on-rails #web
Shubhodeep Mukherjee, Tech Lead at Paytm Insider
“I am surprised everyday with how different people work with each other so well, and help each other to achieve their goals.”
June 15, 2020 · #product #self-taught #web
Katie Roberts, Engineering Manager at BBC
“Many new managers feel that they still can only add value with controlling situations. Sometimes you have to embrace the chaos and understand why it works like it does.”
April 20, 2020 · #backend #search-relevance #web
Arpan Sheth, Engineering Manager at Twitter
“Everyday I want to make sure that I have put my team in a place where they have clarity in terms of expectations and have all the tools / support they need to perform their job.”
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
Ana Ulin, Staff Software Engineer at Abl Schools
“Seeing all our collective work come together as we make progress towards whatever we’re building is hugely satisfying.”
Tom Bartel, Lead Engineer at Trivago
“The aspect that motivated me most about the role was seeing other people grow and do things that surprise you.”
Joan Gamell, Staff Front-end Engineer at Slack
“Becoming a manager is not easy at first, but can be very rewarding as long as you take pride and pleasure in building highly performant teams.”
