Saddle up, Twitter engineering managers

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/28/23482336/saddle-up-twitter-engineering-managers

by openplatypus • 4 years ago

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fnimick• 4 years ago

Anyone who stayed on after the "extremely hardcore or quit" email shouldn't be surprised by impulsive and bad management.

chrismeller• 4 years ago

I mean, of course we’d all like our engineering managers to be the technical variety, but we all know there are also the less technical “people people” managers in the pipeline.

joanfihu• 4 years ago

An engineering manager without technical achievements has no authority

edmundsauto• 4 years ago

Have you ever read "turn the ship around"? It talks about how the captain of a nuclear submarine was able to turn leader-follower model into leader-leader because he had to rely on the judgement of his team.

Management is a different skill from engineering. I've met great EMs who never coded, but did have a great amount of skill in people management.

Saddle up, Twitter engineering managers

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