Growth

The most common mistakes new engineering managers make, why they happen, and how to correct them early.

Being a successful engineering manager is not easy. Learn about the 4 key ways of failure you need to watch.

We have a mechanism that creates unhappiness, difficulty changing habits, relationship problems, frustration, anger and disappointment. We are usually not aware of this, but it is happening continuously and in all of us.

Everyone agrees that constant learning and having a growth mindset are fundamental to success in software engineering. Yet once you are done with onboarding at your new job as a software engineer the rat race seems to begin, leaving no dedicated time for learning.

Try this instead: every time you feel the urge to write code, instead spend the time reading or learning something related to management.

The key to progress is the temptation of constant challenge, with tasks that remain both achievable and interesting, broken up into pieces of work that are just right.