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Make It Easy for Your Manager to Give Feedback
It's your manager's job to give you feedback but it's yours to get it from them.
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Suresh Choudhary
Say Goodbye to Awkward Performance Reviews
Make most out of this awkward formality
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Suresh Choudhary
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5 Things Effective Teams Do Well
Insights from Google's Project Aristotle on high-performing teams
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Suresh Choudhary
Keeping Your Technical Edge in 2025
Put the "engineering" back into Engineering Management.
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Suresh Choudhary
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December 2024

November 2024

How to Become a Micromanager
Without being a jerk
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Suresh Choudhary
Your Number One Job As An Engineering Manager
It’s not what you think and it’s always changing.
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Suresh Choudhary
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Wait, That’s NOT Coaching!
What Engineering Managers should know about coaching, so they can do it correctly.
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Suresh Choudhary
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Navigating Sticky Situations as an Engineer
How a Meta Staff Engineer handles four common sticky work situations
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Suresh Choudhary
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Sidwyn Koh
Don’t Become an Engineering Manager
Without preparing for these four hidden realities first.
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