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How Many EMs to Change a Lightbulb?

Developing Leadership

The Limits of Engineering Managers to Team Leaders

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At GitHub, I had 38 direct reports. That singular situation probably prepared me more for understanding how to run very large companies than a lot of other things. And yes, it's the totality of my experiences made me who I am. But would I've ever been a very good product engineering design type of like meta CTO if I didn't have that experience? You know, probably would have been a lot harder to become that person.

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