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Episode 338: I am the golden handcuffs and Staying in management

Soft Skills Engineering

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What Makes a Good Engineering Manager?

The breadth of problems and philosophies to solving those problems in engineering management is just so poorly established. So the way that I would summarize that is that it's a little more fuzzy about what makes a good engineering manager. Make sure that you have a portfolio of answers at the ready for common management questions, such as what's your philosophy on performance management? The best engineering manager candidates that I have interviewed have a very crisp management philosophy and very concrete tenets about how they approach a wide variety of different problems.

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