Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager

Why Management at Startups Is Critical

At this point, you should see that there’s plenty of scope for using startups as an opportunity to land that first management position, or perhaps, after you’ve become comfortable and tenured with management, making a giant leap into being VP engineering.

However, as you’re probably aware, many engineers have a stereotypical view of managers. Perhaps they feel that management is busywork when compared to the “real” work of getting the product out the door. Perhaps they think that it’s where the bad programmers go to get a pay raise. Perhaps they think that it’s entirely pointless altogether.

I hope that if you had any of these feelings when you started the book, that they’ve now dissipated. However, there ...