Interviews and Resources for Engineering Managers and Leaders
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As an engineering manager, there is a lot to learn and master from leadership to coaching. TED Talks are a great resource for learning.
Here I’ve curated the top 12 TED talks for engineering managers and leaders. Most of the descriptions are taken from the videos. All links are to YouTube.
Top 5 Most Referenced and Watched videos useful for Engineering Leaders
“The puzzle of motivation” by Dan Pink
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Published on Aug 25,
“A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
As an engineering manager, there is a lot to learn and master from people management to planning and execution. Podcasts are a great resource for learning. You can listen to them on the go, on the commute, etc. Have you discovered the power of podcasts yet? Are you addicted to podcasts like me?
Here I’ve curated great podcasts for engineering managers and leaders.
Calibrate 2018
September 21, 2018 – San Francisco
Calibrate is a conference for new engineering managers hosted by seasoned engineering managers. Founded in 2015, Calibrate is now in its fourth year, having run three events in September 2015, 2016 and 2017.
REdeploy
Aug 16 & 17, 2018 – San Francisco
REdeploy: a conference exploring the concept of Resilience Engineering, also known as RE,
Elevate, July 13th
ELEVATE is a day-long event for engineering leaders who are looking to learn about how to overcome the most pressing challenges of engineering management.
Taking over New Engineering Teams/Orgs, July 18th
Latest meetup from San Francisco Engineering Leadership Community (SFELC).
https://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Engineering-Leadership-Community/events/252236436/
Code Climate Summit, July 18th
Code Climate Summit is a one-day conference for leaders of engineering organizations who want to better themselves,
I recently completed a loop of interviews for a software engineering manager position. Below is a collection of 100+ mostly management and behavioral questions I was asked on phone screens and by panels during onsite interviews for engineering management positions at a variety of big-name and top-tier tech companies in the San Francisco Bay Area such as Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, LinkedIn, Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, Pinterest, Salesforce, Intuit, Autodesk, et al. No one asked all these.
PHILIPPINE SEA (April 12, 2018) The guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey (DDG 105) receives fuel from the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1) during a fueling-at-sea (FAS). (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Taylor King/Released)
I am interested in military leadership and the stories of military leaders. I served in the US Navy for several years and met some amazing leaders there.
Is being a military leader the same as a civilian engineering leader?
This list is WIP
The Austin CTO Summit 2018
April 10, 2018 – Capital Factory 701 Brazos St TX
A full day, single track summit of the latest tricks other companies are using to successfully build and run engineering teams. Attendance to the event is strictly limited to engineering leaders.
Elevate Leaders
April 21, 2018 – Sacramento, CA
Should You Go?
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Amazon.com returns over 1,000,000 results for “management books.” Which are the best ones? Here are the books that that first 21 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?”
Before we get to the complete list, the following four books were recommended by more than 1 guest.
