Balancing Responsibility and Control as a Manager

In this episode, I chat with Anita Singh, who stepped into a managing manager role at the rapidly growing ultrafast grocery delivery company Gorillas and shared her experience of this in a talk at LeadDev Berlin 2022. We talk about the feeling of more responsibility but with less control and how the perspective of the first team changes.

Guest biography:

Anita is an engineering leader who is passionate about building mobile apps and empowering teams to build quality software that delights users. After spending a couple of years working for bigger public tech companies, Anita has since worked at startups in both Silicon Valley and Berlin, where she has scaled teams, culture, processes and software from the ground up. She enjoys coaching engineering managers and staff engineers in her current role and hopes to continue on this path.

Transcript and show notes available here: ⁠https://managingmanagers.tech/episodes/episode-005-anita-singh/