Metadata
- Author: Karl Hughes
- Full Title:: A Day in the Life of an Engineering Manager
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: My management principles, values, and practices
- URL:: https://www.toptal.com/engineering-management/a-day-in-life-engineering-manager
- Finished date:: 2023-03-27
Highlights
I knew that I typically spent about one-third of my time helping my team solve technical problems or pairing with teammates. (View Highlight)
need to be good at helping their team members get “unstuck.” Sometimes this means answering technical questions, and sometimes it means resolving disputes between team members. (View Highlight)
Technical work includes writing code, code reviews, hunting down bugs, pairing with teammates, and reading software updates and best practices. As my teams grew, the amount of time I devoted to writing and reviewing code dwindled, but I do think it’s important for engineering managers to spend at least some of their time elbow-deep in the code (View Highlight)