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The unions are (finally) coming for big tech
After decades of taking a back seat, the rise of AI, layoffs, and industry-wide burnout has led to a call for more prominent tech unions.
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Rejecting promotions, PIPs, and other dreaded conversations
Difficult conversations are no-ones favorite part of the job. Here’s how to make promotion rejections and performance conversations easier.
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How the right workflow can catapult productivity
Do you find that your team constantly misses deadlines and feels miserable in the process? It might be a workflow problem.
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10 things nobody tells you about OKRs
OKRs are a simple – and useful – sounding idea, but in practice, there are all kinds of troubles people get bogged down in. Here are ten, rarely mentioned, things that can help.
Editor’s picks
1:1s Foundations: best practices for conversations that count
Building a safe space during your one-to-one meetings, where your direct report can be open and honest
Performance season made easy with this proven strategy
Performance review seasons are tense times for managers and reports alike. Here’s a system to smooth the process over.
Berlin • Nov 3 & 4, 2025
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Essential reading
Reasons to step into a leadership role (and the reasons not to)
Thinking of becoming an engineering leader? Let Pat Kua help you with the first step of the journey.
On our Engineering Management playlist
It’s time to pay off your management debt
Explore management debt’s impact on organizations, uncovering inefficiencies and missed opportunities. Learn actionable strategies to identify, track, and eliminate management debt for sustainable growth.
Resilient Management: Lara Hogan in conversation
Resilient Management is a guide to building, inspiring and leading resilient teams
Managing authentically across levels
Learn how to manage engineers at all levels with practical tips for adapting your style to support growth and foster a thriving, high-performing engineering team.
Effective communication: Mastering growth-oriented feedback
Discover strategies for delivering feedback that builds trust and openness. Learn science-backed techniques to make feedback constructive, approachable, and growth-focused, helping teams unlock their full potential.
Tactics for developing junior engineers
How to plan out intentional time for junior talent to be as productive as possible
The conference for engineering leaders shaping the future of software
Berlin • November 3 & 4, 2025
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Boosting team performance as a tech lead
Being parachuted into an inexperienced team can be a great opportunity for you to share your expertise and help individuals upskill.
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Driving efficiency with lean engineering teams
How to drive pace and build highly effective engineering teams when you can’t expand the headcount.
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Optimize hiring for speed and scale to outpace the competition
The hiring landscape has changed dramatically this year, but moving fast can create a huge competitive advantage when vying for top software engineering talent.
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Empathetic leadership for inclusive success
Adopting and promoting an empathetic approach to leadership can ensure team and company-wide success.
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Training your interviewers to make a great first impression
Hiring in big tech may have slowed, but the value of making a good first impression has never changed.
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Rethinking your engineer hiring strategy in 2024
Tech hiring is going through an intense period of change, how do you adapt?
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The two engineering archetypes that drive performance
The guru and the maven can help raise the bar for an entire engineering team faster than hiring experts or learning from the best.
Top Engineering Management Videos
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Breaking the burnout cycle in engineering teams
Shelly Stuart talks hustle culture – where stress, hard work, and long hours are considered the key to success – has long been pervasive in the tech industry.
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Meeting your people where they are
Amanda Sopkin breaks down some of the big ways in which people are different: communication styles, ways they prefer to receive appreciation, and attitudes towards career progression.
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Managing at the threshold: Examining our principles in a moment of change
David Yee talks about managing at the threshold: Examining our principles in a moment of change
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Leading Snowflakes: Oren Ellenbogen in conversation
Understand how to lead unique individuals and improve your overall management skills
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Engineering your feedback: A (quick) guide to success
As managers and leaders, giving effective feedback is crucial in order to help engineers on our teams grow and thrive in their profession. In this talk, I’ll share 3 golden rules when it comes to providing feedback that is effective.
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Organizational resilience
André Kenji Horie discusses how Duolingo thinks about resilience in the workplace, the tools provided to managers to help them develop their own resilience, as well as their direct reports, lessons learned and pitfalls avoided.
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Maximizing your impact when context-switching
Maude Lemaire spent the last few years trialing a few different ways to sustainably maximize this time by balancing productivity with a bit of mindfulness. Come learn from her (many) mistakes, and hopefully we can all feel a bit less like a Dalí painting.
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Driving positive change through performance improvement plans
Cristina Yenyxe Gonzalez Garcia describes an approach to PIPs in which the manager helps to set the employee up for success.