Engineer to manager and back again
Lauren Tan joined us to talk about her blog post titled “Does it spark joy?” In this post Lauren shared the news of her resignation as an engineering manager at Netflix to return to being a software engineer. We examine the career trajectory of a software engineer and the seemingly inevitable draw to management for continued career growth. The idea of understanding “What are you optimizing for?” and whether or not what you’re doing truly brings you joy.
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Donna Cothran
2020-03-19T08:51:55Z ago
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Jerod Santo
Omaha, Nebraska
Jerod co-hosts The Changelog, crashes JS Party, and takes out the trash (his old code) once in awhile.
2020-03-19T13:26:56Z ago
Come on, Donna 🙄
Rainer Poisel
2020-03-22T21:25:49Z ago
Thank you for this inspiring podcast episode! It contains a lot of food for thought for me. I am also currently in the process of rethinking my current career path: Should I continue to move towards a management role or do I still see my future more in the technical area?
When you talked about “fears” I had to think about Susan Jeffers’ book “Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway”. Here is a short summary of the book’s key messages: http://www.susanjeffers.com/home/5truths.cfm.
Greetings from Austria,
Rainer
Jerod Santo
Omaha, Nebraska
Jerod co-hosts The Changelog, crashes JS Party, and takes out the trash (his old code) once in awhile.
2020-03-23T13:30:39Z ago
Thanks for sharing, Rainer! I especially like this point from the summary:
Hax Or
2020-03-23T06:09:43Z ago
Wow so well articulated. I’m sharing so many flashbacks. I do think though that pendulum pattern should be the norm in order for us as society to progress because it will breakdown hierarchy and barrier of sterotypes.