What makes a great engineering manager? | Will Larson

Will Larson currently serves as Carta's CTO. He was previously the CTO at Calm and worked at Stripe, Uber, Digg, and a few other places. In this video he goes over best engineering practices and engineering management.
Will Larson Books:
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management - www.amazon.com/dp/B08RMSHYGG
Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track - www.amazon.com/dp/B08RMSHYGG
Making Things Think: How AI and Deep Learning Power the Products We Use: www.holloway.com/b/making-thi...
Will's recommendations:
Thinking in Systems: www.amazon.com/Thinking-Syste...
Don't Think of an Elephant!: www.amazon.com/ALL-NEW-Dont-T...
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Introduction
01:02 What makes a great manager?
06:42 Your first 90 days as CTO or VP Engineering
12:33 How to measure an engineering organization?
17:50 What are the commonalities of great engineering teams?
21:30 Is there a trend towards more nimble and smaller teams?
28:30 Investing in technical infrastructure
32:27 Serverless
37:10 Managing the energy of a team
41:40 Remote vs Hybrid
44:40 Engineering strategies
48:50 What makes a great staff engineer?
53:50 Book recommendations and conclusion

Пікірлер: 14

  • @jmhuret
    @jmhuret2 ай бұрын

    Wow, what an amazing prognostication at 35:00. Now, just a year into the AI craze, that seems clairvoyant.

  • @trushenjp
    @trushenjp5 ай бұрын

    great video, totally underrated and deserves more views!

  • @JohnVandivier
    @JohnVandivier3 ай бұрын

    Some really good takes in here. Thanks for sharing.

  • @hovgrig
    @hovgrig8 ай бұрын

    Thanks for sharing, always great to hear Will speak, lots of visdom as usual.

  • @sak11222
    @sak112228 ай бұрын

    This was an excellent conversation. I learned a lot from this.

  • @davidmontero75
    @davidmontero758 ай бұрын

    What a great talk. Really good advice and opinions

  • @kevanschwitzer8585
    @kevanschwitzer8585Ай бұрын

    What an incredible, wonderful interview!

  • @mateusexel1779
    @mateusexel17792 ай бұрын

    Great interview!

  • @user-gc9sp7bx5z
    @user-gc9sp7bx5z11 ай бұрын

    this was great.

  • @mstzn1
    @mstzn19 күн бұрын

    `Rather than feeling motivated by like a moral sense of like justice` => That is the line where you lose your humanity

  • @TheoBriscoe
    @TheoBriscoe9 ай бұрын

    What metrics do you suggest tracking ?

  • @zshn

    @zshn

    4 ай бұрын

    1. Are your reports upskilling relative to their level at the org level. (Skill) 2. Are the reports contributing to completing complex features on time. (Management) 3. Are the reports collaborating with different people in the team. (Collaboration)

  • @ProfessorWeekend
    @ProfessorWeekend23 күн бұрын

    So when you say "engineers", what you actually mean are computer programmers or app developers, right? People with computer science related degrees, not engineering degrees, right? I don't think companies like Uber and Digg have any PEs on staff. They probably don't even know what that is.