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Managers for Good
by David Choe
Welcome to Managers for Good, a weekly series discussing the real good and not so good of managing technical people. We interview engineering and product leaders and dive deep into the difficult and untold stories of management.Managers for Good is brought to you by Staat. Staat makes it super fast and easy for managers and their teams to have a unified, objective knowledge base on engineering priorities and bottlenecks. We want to hear from you! Send us topics or if you'd like to be a guest reach out to us at [email protected] or @staathq. Please subscribe, rate, and share!
Episodes
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The Power of Effective Goal Setting for Engineering Managers w. Najla Elmachtoub, Senior Engineering Manager @ Etsy
On this week's episode of Technically Human we have Senior Engineering Manager at Etsy and Staat's Customer Advisory Board Member, Najla Elmachtoub talks about the power of goal setting. She dives deep into how self-reflection enabled her to create more clear goals and how that positively affects...
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From Military Officer to Software Developer: Lessons on Influence
On this week's episode of Technically Human, we hear from Evans Wang, a senior software engineer at Area 23, an innovation agency based in New York City. Evans drops some incredible wisdom from his incredible experience as a military officer, a coding boot camp instructor, and a manager turned…
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How to respond as an engineering manager when someone quits
In this episode of Technically Human, Eric Gong and I discuss the complexities and realities of people quitting. Eric gets deep into practical ways to respond to someone quitting unexpectedly that is good for the person quitting, the team, and the manager. He talks about the "Grand Exit", how to...
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How to Understand Engineer Motivation for Interviews
In this week's episode of Technically Human, Eric Gong, Founder & CEO of Eric Gong & Company, a technical recruiting company and former VP of engineering talks about how to uncover a candidates motivations during an interview and why that's so crucial to understanding if they are a culture fit or...
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A connection-based approach to 1:1s for remote teams
Tim Whitacre, an engineering manager at New Story based in Atlanta, talks about how he and his teams have shifted their 1:1 structure and purpose while transitioning to remote work. He provides solid frameworks on how to think about 1:1s to be more effective and how he once had to do 1:1s while...
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Coping with Isolation & Burnout as an Engineering Manager
Eric Gong, former VP of Engineering, talks about his experience dealing with isolation as an engineering manager and some ideas on how to prevent burnout
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Making Tough Decisions & Second Guessing Yourself as an Engineering Manager
In this week's episode of Technically Human, we talk with Eric Gong, former VP of engineering. He recalls one of his toughest moments as an eng manager where he wasn't sure if he made the right call and whether or not his actions caused his dev to quit.
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Why management is just as much a learned skill as software development
In this week's episode of Technically Human we do a deep dive into some of the most surprising insights we've collected while building Staat, an alert and notifications system for software teams.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to Managers for Good, a weekly series discussing the real good and not so good of managing technical people. We interview engineering and product leaders and dive deep into the difficult and untold stories of management.Managers for Good is brought to you by Staat. Staat makes it super fast and easy for managers and their teams to have a unified, objective knowledge base on engineering priorities and bottlenecks. We want to hear from you! Send us topics or if you'd like to be a guest reach out to us at [email protected] or @staathq. Please subscribe, rate, and share!
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David Choe
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