How much of a stretch is healthy do you think when thinking about expectation settings? My guess is that some of the nuances that you kind of want to be pushing, you want to be right on the edge. At the same time, I think a lot of the thinking around OKRs where you hit them 60 or 70% of the time can be very demotivating.
Our guest today is Marcel Weekes, VP of Product Engineering at Figma and former VP of Engineering at Slack.
In today’s conversation, he unpacks why most startups get it wrong when they uplevel someone from IC engineer to eng manager and unfurls what stellar engineering management looks like at high-growth companies, including:
- Setting appropriate expectations and goals
- Turbocharging the team’s effectiveness
- Delivering high-impact feedback
- Going from a peer to a manager
- What leaders risk when they drag their heels on managing out low-performers
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