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The Engineering Leadership Report 2025

The Engineering Leadership Report 2025

We asked 600+ engineering leaders how their roles are changing in response to a rapidly changing economic landscape. Here’s what we found.

Scott Carey

Read the full report to see how engineering leadership is changing, the most common challenges leaders face, and where priorities are shifting.

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  • Findings from our 600+ engineer survey responses
  • Insights into how exactly organizations are changing
  • Understand where leaders are spending their time now

After years of relative stability, the role of engineering leaders is changing rapidly to adapt to new economic and technological realities.

Tightening budgets and the rise of generative AI are impacting how work is prioritized, the shape of engineering teams, and the way folks are rewarded for their work. This puts new pressure on managers to pivot and focus on efficiency. 

Communicating change, effectively reorganizing teams, and motivating engineers have all become increasingly important leadership skills in the interim, while opportunities to hire and dive into the codebase have dried up.