[Taro Classic] Work Better With Your Engineering Manager
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As an engineer, the single most important figure in your professional life is whoever is currently your engineering manager. No matter how skilled you are, it is simply impossible to lead a successful tech career if you aren't able to get along with your engineering manager.
This is surprisingly difficult as there's far, far more to this than hoping to get a "nice" manager and then being "nice" in return. The vast majority of engineers get this relationship wrong, and that's what this course is here to help you with. After going through it, you will:
- 💡 Deeply understand life through the lens of an engineering manager, so you can properly empathize with them
- 🧠 Have the proper mindset around how to approach the engineering manager <-> engineer relationship
- 🚀 Maximize the growth you achieve with your manager’s support
- 📋 Go into your manager 1 on 1 meetings with a crystal clear plan
- 🎖️ Know how to work with your manager optimally to achieve your performance review and promotion goals
Alex Chiou and Rahul Pandey spent years honing their coding skills, which was a huge asset towards their career success. However, none of this would have mattered if they weren't able to build deep relationships with their engineering managers, particularly at Big Tech.
Alex Chiou: Across the first 8 years of his career, Alex had a whopping 11 engineering managers. Throughout this experience, he really learned what it meant to be a bad, average, or genuinely great engineering manager. While never becoming a manager himself (he was close at Meta and Robinhood), he took those learnings to mentor dozens of engineers directly, having recurring 1 on 1s with 15+ engineers at Meta.
Rahul Pandey: Rahul is one of the few who has seen both sides of the coin. After having a large collection of managers across Kosei, Pinterest, and Meta, he became an engineering manager himself during his last year at Meta. With this perspective, he is uniquely capable of teaching engineers how to optimally plug in with their managers as he knows exactly what managers are looking for from their direct reports.
