TE
TechEcho
Home24h TopNewestBestAskShowJobs
GitHubTwitter
Home

TechEcho

A tech news platform built with Next.js, providing global tech news and discussions.

GitHubTwitter

Home

HomeNewestBestAskShowJobs

Resources

HackerNews APIOriginal HackerNewsNext.js

© 2025 TechEcho. All rights reserved.

Ask HN: Questions for Engineering Managers

1 pointsby andherover 4 years ago
Hey ya&#x27;ll. The title mentions q&#x27;s for EM&#x27;s but would love input from anyone who has experience or an opinion.<p>Q: Did you get hired in a new company &#x2F; team as an EM, or transition within the same team?<p>Q: Do you keep on building your technical knowledge? In your experience, is there a need for doing that or does experience gained in people management skills remove that requirement<p>Q: How good of an engineer would you rate yourself when you made the transition? Did you ever think &#x27;I don&#x27;t know enough eng yet&#x27;?<p>Q: Do you manage teams in the same technical domain you worked in before? Have you been an EM for teams in different domains? Did that have some effect &#x2F; no effect &#x2F; needed tech ramp up?<p>Q: Have you moved back to an eng role? Was that easy? Difficult? Have you ping-ponged between the two?<p>Context: I&#x27;m a senior (whatever that means) engineer, and casually considering moving more towards the management side (currently a tech lead for a team). Enjoy &#x2F; have some people skills so this kind of work is attractive to some extent.

no comments

no comments