Job search in 2025
Company: we don’t do coding & system design interviews for our managerial candidates.
Candidate: it makes so much sense! I’m so glad to hear that.
Company: here’s a link to our personality + IQ test as part of our hiring process.
Candidate: 🤦🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️🙃
Back to public speaking 🥳
In a few weeks, I’ll be sharing what I’ve learned growing from managing engineers to leading managers as an Engineering Director. Can't wait to share the lessons and stories at #WoSR24 🚀
@WinTechSeries
Thrilled to be joining Yelp today as a Director of Data Infrastructure 🤩🤩🤩
Yay for data reliability and platform engineering! 😃
Soon I’ll be sharing some amazing professional news! Can’t wait to tell you all about my role which starts later this month 😉 – at Camberwell, London
Fascinating how much difference in the implementation of Eng Management across companies.
I’ve seen several examples when people who never wanted to be managers at one place are happily moving to EMs in other companies. – at Camberwell, London
Wow, it’s an excellent write up on how big tech fails to innovate.
Tldr all incentives are built to minimise risk. More action equals more risk. In the peaceful times, that makes a ton of sense but it fails miserably when action is necessary to survive.
medium.com/@pravse/the-maze-… – at Camberwell, London
Sad and heartbroken 💔
Can’t believe our taxes will be directed to Barclays instead of a nonprofit. – at Camberwell, London
After a decade transforming UK tech, Tech Nation announces it will cease operations and seek to transfer its assets, following termination of its core government grant funding hubs.ly/Q01zKxSn0 #WeAreTechNation #UKTech #scaleups
It’s quite unintuitive but exceptionally fast decision making when it comes to complex questions touching multiple people might be a sign of top down processes where people have to follow orders coming from the top. – at Camberwell, London
While the whole FTX drama unravels, you know what fascinates me the most compared to the Theranos one?
People don’t talk about the appearance of the FTX founder. With Theranos, pretty much each piece of journalism touched upon her looks.
Such different standards and sentiment.
Laying someone off is one of the hardest things we may need to do as managers. Many folks are going through this with little to no support atm.
Often official HR guidelines are lacking authenticity and human to human connection.
I’ve got a better guide lennyspodcast.com/how-to-fir…
Having done this myself and having coached EMs to do this in a compassionate and mindful way, I’d strongly recommend the guide above ^^
Def worth a listen!
Here’s another one on how to have a challenging conversation about perf issues and letting smb go moderncto.io/brendan-wovchko