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Top 12 questions you get as a hiring manager

Thoughts on giving feedback

A good, blameless feedback culture is essential for working together efficiently as it forms healthy relationships, fuels personal and professional growth and aligns us with common norms. Feedback is one of the cornerstones of company culture.

management

Learning at work is work

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

management

Questions vs. directions

Asking questions is a basic coaching technique but doing it properly is a matter of practice, finding a good balance and avoiding some common pitfalls.

1:1

The basics of one-on-ones

Conducting good 1:1 sessions is one of the most frustrating skills new engineering leads need to learn. It’s frustrating for many because this is one of the leadership areas where you don’t have a step-by-step guide.

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Excuse no. 13 - this is how I am

“I know sometimes I’m not easy to deal with. It’s just the way I am.” How often have you heard sentences like that? Or maybe in some other forms, like: “You know I’m just a passionate person and I get carried away” or “You know I’m just an honest guy so I’ll be blunt with you”, etc.

management

Kill your heroes

The project is 3 months late, you can feel the pressure from upper management building up on you and your team. What to do?

management

Engineering managers, stop coding!

So you became an engineering manager from a senior engineer. Congratulations and welcome to possibly the hardest change in your career. Everything is going to change — the way you defined yourself so far, your evaluation, your goals, the length of your work’s feedback loop.

growth

Staying motivated while growing

For those unfamiliar with classic fairy tales, in Goldilocks, a little girl visited the home of a family of three bears, and tried each of their meals, chairs and beds. She choose the options most comfortable for her, in terms of taste, size and softness.