Engineering Reading List

engineering_reading.md

Engineering and Leadership Reading

team leadership

• How to get your Teammates to follow your lead
• Discovering Culture Thru Artifacts
• https://dev.to/rkoutnik/implementers-solvers-and-finders-3f7a
• https://tomtunguz.com/a-conversation-with-nick-caldwell/
• https://getlighthouse.com/blog/management-skill/

tech lead/senior engineer

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10395046
• https://staffeng.com/
• https://staff.design/
• https://www.siddharthsarda.com/p/something-important-for-someone-important
• https://staffeng.com/guides/staff-archetypes/
• https://matthewrocklin.com/blog/2019/11/09/senior-engineer

infrastucture team structure

• https://platformengineering.org/blog/what-is-platform-engineering
• https://noidea.dog/glue

1:1s

• https://www.impraise.com/blog/1-on-1s-for-engaged-employees-how-good-managers-run-them
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20190510222214/https://blog.impraise.com/360-feedback/1-on-1s-for-engaged-employees-how-good-managers-should-do-them-performance-review
• https://jasonevanish.com/2014/05/29/101-questions-to-ask-in-1-on-1s/
• https://twitter.com/Jobvo/status/1543157537222148096
  • https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1543157537222148096.html

Managing Up

• https://www.themuse.com/advice/10-ways-to-get-your-boss-to-trust-you-completely
• http://misc-stuff.terraaeon.com/articles/micromanaging-bosses.html

Manager readme

• https://randsinrepose.com/archives/how-to-rands/
• https://hackernoon.com/12-manager-readmes-from-silicon-valleys-top-tech-companies-26588a660afe
• https://jvns.ca/blog/things-your-manager-might-not-know/

Individual Management

• https://larahogan.me/blog/managers-when-teammate-shares-grief/

Performance Management

• https://modus.medium.com/the-skilled-managers-guide-to-dealing-with-underperformers-dd0386c6893d

Hiring

• https://www.startupbootcamp.io/

Code Review

• https://mtlynch.io/code-review-love/
• https://phauer.com/2018/code-review-guidelines/
• https://www.michaelagreiler.com/respectful-constructive-code-review-feedback/

Promotions/Resumé

• https://staffeng.com/guides/promo-packets
• https://jvns.ca/blog/brag-documents/
• https://jacobian.org/2020/may/8/engineering-resume-accomplishments/
• https://circleci.com/blog/why-we-re-designed-our-engineering-career-paths-at-circleci/

Unsorted

• https://codeburst.io/how-to-successfully-join-a-company-as-engineering-manager-f51986e47553
• https://thenewstack.io/the-future-of-ops-careers/
• https://medium.com/hackernoon/the-patient-change-agent-fd8548f04777