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Cyrus Codes
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Howdy all!
I'm Cyrus. By day, I'm a Director of Engineering at Betterment. I've been there for about 7 years, and I'm responsible for about 20 people in our full-stack engineering org.
I created this channel to be helpful - I've benefited from incredible mentors in my career, and I figured this would be a fun way to share my experiences with others. We'll talk about engineering, management, and even build some stuff together.
I'm always learning how to be a better, so think of this a bit like a personal journal. I'll share what's worked well for me, but most of all, I want to hear from you all. Hopefully we can all level up together.
I'm Cyrus. By day, I'm a Director of Engineering at Betterment. I've been there for about 7 years, and I'm responsible for about 20 people in our full-stack engineering org.
I created this channel to be helpful - I've benefited from incredible mentors in my career, and I figured this would be a fun way to share my experiences with others. We'll talk about engineering, management, and even build some stuff together.
I'm always learning how to be a better, so think of this a bit like a personal journal. I'll share what's worked well for me, but most of all, I want to hear from you all. Hopefully we can all level up together.
3 Principles for running Happy & Motivated Engineering TEAMS
👨💻 It's tough to keep a team's energy consistently high over time. These 3 principles will help you build strong teams by focusing on the daily life of individual engineers. Supercharge your skills as an engineering manager or tech lead!
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1:30 - #1: Knowing the “role” they’re playing
3:01 - #2: Learning something new every day
5:00 - #3: Feeling momentum in their work
6:44 - Real world example!
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MY BIGGEST MISTAKE: How I caused 2 outages in 5 minutes, on launch day - ruclips.net/video/CWa1OcMQKhw/видео.html
I'd love to hear your feedback. Agree? Disagree? What else do you think makes a high-functioning team? Leave a comment below.
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🎬 Jump around if you'd like:
1:30 - #1: Knowing the “role” they’re playing
3:01 - #2: Learning something new every day
5:00 - #3: Feeling momentum in their work
6:44 - Real world example!
⏩ Watch this next:
MY BIGGEST MISTAKE: How I caused 2 outages in 5 minutes, on launch day - ruclips.net/video/CWa1OcMQKhw/видео.html
I'd love to hear your feedback. Agree? Disagree? What else do you think makes a high-functioning team? Leave a comment below.
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Should engineering managers STILL write code?!
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The question this week is one I hear constantly: should I still code as a manager? And if so, how much?! MY BIGGEST MISTAKE: How I caused 2 outages in 5 minutes, on launch day - ruclips.net/video/CWa1OcMQKhw/видео.html I'd love to hear your feedback. Agree? Disagree? What questions do you love to ask in your one-on-one meetings? Leave a comment below. TEXT OR LEAVE A VOICEMAIL WITH QUESTIONS: (...
MY WORST MISTAKE: How I caused two outages in 5 minutes, on launch day
Просмотров 4065 лет назад
Things don't always go as planned. And sometimes, they go far far worse. This is the story of my biggest mistake as an engineer - it was a high-stakes day, at an even higher-stakes time in my career. 0:19 - The story... 9:40 - 3 important lessons learned If you like this video, give me a sub or hit that Like button. There are plenty more stories like this one, and if y'all like them, I'll share...
5 Questions to ask in EVERY One-on-One Meeting
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One-on-One meetings are one of your most powerful tools as a manager. The key to unlocking their power is asking the right questions. (Expand for timestamps!). Ready to level up as an engineering manager and find you dream job? Join the community at manager.dev 🚀 I’ll share 5 questions you can always ask to get a better sense of how your reports are growing, feeling, and thinking. And most impo...
3 Tips for Managing Up (Managers AND Employees)
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"Managing up" is hard for everyone, but it just takes practice. And it's worth it - making sure that your manager knows about all of the awesome stuff you're doing, and knows what opportunities you're looking for, is essential to advancing in your career. Jump around if you'd like! Tip #1: Keep a "Brag Sheet" (2:24) Tip #2: Ask your manager "how can I help?" (4:51) Tip #3: This one's for manage...
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If you really look for problems deep enough, you will find too many to deal with. Otherwise 1:1's are just stupid status meetings and no one is going to be the one to complain because their is no positive reward for that. They just want the paycheck and for you to leave them alone.
Good stuff! Thank you for sharing 😊
I like the idea to try to generate continuous feedback for peers. I'll add a couple of these questions to my template
Awesome 👌very helpful
What does an ideal manager should do post one on one conversation??
I always ask my 1-1s at the end of the call "is there anything you need me to focus on or action for you this week?" And if they give me tasks I put them on the stickie board.
I learned something valuable today thanks to you! I just got promoted and I need this to have a good starting point.
Congrats on the promotion! Good luck.
Great analogies and great questions.
These are all great questions, however, as a manager, I personally feel like we should also let team ask the questions they have in their mind. It is more like bidirectional conversation.
my manager always wants us to ask qstns :-)
Tengjiao Wang great suggestion!
Great advice! As a new manager, this helps!
Glad to hear it Michael! Good luck 👍🏽
Greetings from my side. First of all I would like to say thank you soo much for your kindly this is really helpful for me I try to lead the team as I'm working at the hotel. You are truly inspired me in so many way. !! Please make more video I'm follow you and waiting for next video soon. Lastly I'm happy while I'm listening to your voice it's true. **
Thank you! You got this 👊🏽
I went to this vid on the basis of me being the subordinate lol. Was still helpful though.
Ha, glad it was helpful!
Super helpful. Thanks.
No problem, Jatin!
If you don’t program for at least 50% of your time, and actually get into and contribute to the projects your staff are working on, you aren’t qualified to be a software manager. If you don’t code all the time, your staff will become increasingly better than you which means that they should be in the driver seat rather than you. You can’t teach others about programming techniques when your own technique is atrophying away. I wrote this before listening to this video and I notice the author sees software managing in the same way. Cheers.
Thanks David! Glad you liked the video 😃 One thing I’ll mention is that I think it’s okay - maybe even great - for engineers to be more technically competent than their manager. It should be a goal of every manager to hire the best team possible! But that’s no excuse for an engineering manager’s skills to atrophy, like you said.
Cyrus Codes Again I agree with you, however, a manager that has less skill has to have enough wisdom to know when to use a subordinates extra skills and when to keep a project in line with the big picture. Such managers are very hard to find. Generally the manager makes the decisions and issues his orders and this might work if he still knows what actually works but less so if not. Developers that are better than the manager normally just move on. The only rule that can’t be broken in software development is that no rule is without exceptions. Cheers. (PS I have developed software for micros for 43 years for over 65 different companies and still going.) (Bought an IMSAI in 1975.)