Name: Managing Up: Problem Solving and Decision Making
Uploaded: 2024-05-10T20:47:12+00:00
Duration: 4 min 6 s
Description: Avoid surprises**

Managing Up: Problem Solving and Decision Making

- **Avoid surprises**. Be ahead of surprises, not behind.
- **Ask to be involved**. Bring value! Data, insights, proposals.

Manage your emotions and remember what style your boss prefers.

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There's more to working in tech than just shipping software. It's vital for your career to build deep professional relationships and make real friends at work, especially if you're looking to grow to senior levels.

Being a good manager is hard enough already - It's even tougher for engineering. Learn more about this complex craft and how you can land a stellar engineering manager yourself.

The clearest way a company can acknowledge your growth. At the end of the day, you can't solely interview your way to a principal engineer; promotion is the true foundation of your pay and career.

Doing this properly is a hard requirement for professional success. As a software engineer in particular, this relationship needs to be carefully navigated to achieve maximum impact.