Interviews and Resources for Engineering Managers and Leaders
Location: New York City
Current role: Director of Engineering at VTS
What’s your background and how did you get into management?
I come from a software engineering background, but I’ve always had a passion for product and business. I’m a serial entrepreneur: I co-founded BillMonk in 2005 (tracks informal debt between friends, like roommates splitting bills; company was sold to Obopay) and the I co-founded Precision Polling in 2010 (self-serve IVR phone surveys;
In this interview (and podcast), with Trish Gray, Head of Business Growth at Pinterest, we discuss the 4D puzzle of management, Trish’s leadership goals, including a download to her leadership goals one-pager, plus techniques for coaching and mentoring your team. Trish has a huge passion for manager effectiveness, and we can all learn a lot from her.
In this interview (and podcast), with Lavanya Ramani, Software Development Manager at Amazon, we discuss “detached attachment,” careers (it’s not a race), hiring with LinkedIn Recruiter, how to avoid being distracted by your phone, and more.
In this interview (also available as a podcast), I speak with Ravi Bhim who has extensive experience and passion about remote and distributed teams. He is founder of BeautifulCode.co a company that specializes remote software development.
Amazon.com returns over 100,000 results for “management books.” Which are the best ones?
I interviewed 65+ engineering leaders since late 2017. Here are the top books that engineering leaders on managersclub.com recommended in answer to the question, ”If you could recommend one book to engineering managers, what would it be and why?” (Some people gave more than 1 recommendation.)
Here are the top books were recommended by more than one leader in order of the number of recommendations.
The following blogs are all from previous guests on managersclub.com. You may not know about all these blogs but they are based on the real-life experience of engineering managers. Many of these are on medium so you can easily follow them.
I’ve also added links to their engineering management interviews on managersclub.com.
Blogs
Location: Mountain View, CA
Current role: VP of engineering at Quora
What’s your background and how did you get into management?
I was born and raised in China. I got my Bachelors degree from Peking University and then came to the US for grad school. I started my first full time job at Google after I got my PhD. After seven years at Google, I joined Quora. In my professional life,
Location: Reston, Virginia
Current Role: Director of Engineering in Nuance Communications
What’s your background and how did you get into management?
I am not just an engineer by training but one by heart! After my undergraduate degree in engineering, I started my career in Digital Image Processing / Graphics engineering and in a couple of years transitioned into Software engineering. I spent over a decade designing and developing software products and solutions for a wide range of business domains including Telecommunication,
