Engineering Impact is a weekly newsletter that highlights trends in engineering leadership, productivity, culture, and scaling development teams.
This week features posts on: Onboarding, Scaling, Interviewing, and Career.
ONBOARDING
This 90-day turns engineers into remarkable managers
David Loftesness, Twitter’s former Director of Engineering, breaks down a plan for new engineering managers to effectively navigate their first quarter — and offers sage advice for the journey beyond those first 90 days.
SCALING
What to do before you double in size
Johnathan Nightingale, Co-author of How F*cked Up Is Your Management?, explains how managers can prepare for some of the common struggles that companies experience as they grow.
INTERVIEWING
Questions for prospective managers
Chelsea Troy, Software Engineer at Ascent Technologies, shares a series of interview questions that she uses to discover a candidate’s managerial instincts.
CAREER
Leadership inflection points
In this two-part series, Alastair Simpson, Head of Design at Atlassian, shares mechanisms that managers can use to scale their careers and continue to have a positive impact on their teams — while not burning themselves out.
Ben Thompson is a co-founder at GitPrime where he leads design and customer experience. He is a Y Combinator alumni, with a background in product design, branding, and UX design. Follow @thebent on Twitter.
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