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Managing Engineers
by Si Jobling
Diving into the subtle art of managing (software) engineers with Si Jobling and Neil Younger.
Episodes
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Season retro
Si and Neil hit episode ten and do what any good engineering manager would do: run a retro. They look back at the highlights, the episodes that didn't quite land, the feedback that stuck, and what they're committing to next season. It's a little self-indulgent, and they know it. But if you've…
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Hiring is hard
Si and Neil compare notes on one of the most underestimated challenges in tech leadership: hiring well. From writing the job spec to navigating AI in the interview room, this episode covers the full journey, with plenty of honest opinions, personal stories and hard-won lessons along the way....
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Agentic mode enabled
It took them eight episodes, but Si and Neil finally tackle AI. No future predictions (well, almost), no hot takes, just two engineering managers sharing what they're actually doing with these tools, what's surprised them, and what still makes them nervous. They cover using LLMs as thinking...
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Communities that made us
In this episode, Si and Neil talk about the communities that helped shape their careers and perspectives as engineers and leaders. From grassroots meetups and agile communities to internal workplace groups and side project collectives, they explore how the right people in the right space can...
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What the metrics?
Metrics are meant to help. But sometimes they just perform. In this episode, we explore the difference between measurement that drives insight and measurement that becomes theatre. From counting test cases and commit history, to DORA metrics and Monte Carlo forecasting, we unpack how numbers can...
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Working remotely or remotely working
We’ve reached the halfway point of our 10-part season, which felt like the right moment to step back and talk about one of the most persistent topics in modern engineering teams - remote and hybrid working. In this episode, Si and Neil explore what working from home actually means when you’re...
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From QA to quality engineering
They explore the journey from “tester” to QA, quality engineer, and quality coach, and why job titles still shape perception, influence, and when people are invited into the room. KEY THEMES Why quality is not just testing at the end, but shaping ideas from discovery through to delivery How...
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How hands on are you?
How hands-on should an engineering manager be, and what do we lose or gain as we move away from the code? In this episode we dig into the messy middle between technical work, people leadership and the hunt for that spark that keeps us excited. Using our own careers as the backdrop, we unpack what...
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Always learning
In this episode, Si and Neil dive into learning as engineering managers, how they approach it personally, how teams respond to it, and why it’s weirdly hard to make time for something everyone claims to value. They chat about learning budgets, 10 percent time, hackathons, internal conferences,...
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Version 2 - The Pilot
In this pilot episode, Si and Neil get to know each other on mic for the first time. They chat about how they got into software engineering, the early days of web and testing communities, and how their careers shifted into management. There are stories about deleting databases, breaking websites,...
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Performance Reviews_
This one is about performance reviews - the anti-patterns of how things shouldn't be done and some pro tips on how things COULD be done. 03:57 What are performance reviews? 11:11 How to do performance reviews 15:27 Any themes or trends? 19:48 The danger of metrics 22:46 Who gets the hype? 27:11…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Diving into the subtle art of managing (software) engineers with Si Jobling and Neil Younger.
HOSTED BY
Si Jobling
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How many episodes does Managing Engineers have?
Managing Engineers currently has 12 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
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Diving into the subtle art of managing (software) engineers with Si Jobling and Neil Younger.
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Managing Engineers is created and hosted by Si Jobling.
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