The Engineering Manager’s Playbook: From IC to People Leader

Becoming an engineering manager is one of the most significant career transitions in technology — and one of the least well-supported. There is almost no formal training, the skills required are completely different from those that earned you the promotion, and the feedback loops are much longer.

Your New Job is Multiplying Others

As an individual contributor, your impact was the code you wrote. As a manager, your impact is the output of your entire team. Every hour you spend coaching, removing blockers, and improving processes is worth more than any code you could write yourself.