The journey from individual contributor to engineering manager isn’t always straightforward. Today, I’ll share what it means to become an engineering manager from my point of view, and a few important points to be aware of before making this transition.
It’s been a while since I haven’t posted anything on my website, it’s because there have been a few changes in 2022 that kept me away from writing. It’s time to resume it.
I was reading this week about “10x engineer” and what it means in the tech industry. If the title can be questionable, I wanted to reflect on its definition and what it can mean in mobile engineering.
Most of people don’t know but I’ve been blogging for some time now. Actually, tomorrow will be ten years. Today is a good time to take a walk on memory lane.
For the past few years, I had the opportunity to mentor new joiners through different roles. In some aspects, I could see myself in them the same way I started years back: eager to prove themselves, jumping on the code and hacking around.
I tried to think about what I learnt the hard way since my first role in the tech industry and how could I help them learn the easy way.
Close to the end of the year, I tend to list what I’ve accomplished but also what didn’t go so well, to help me see what can I do better next year. With couple days early, it’s time to look back at 2020.
Shortly stepping back from coding for a week and reading about the community, I realized it how easy it is to be crushed by anxiety: I see so many great things happening every day, things I want to be part of, but at the same time getting anxiety to be good enough. This is my thoughts of how to face the impostor syndrome.