Engineering Manager looking for a new place to thrive
Update: I found a new job but keeping this post for posterity 🙂 —– Hi, I’m Kim Moir and I’mContinue Reading
Author: Kim Moir
Interviewing for a new role as a Engineering Manager: Culture and Alignment
This post is about ensuring you are are in alignment with your next role as an engineering manager in termsContinue Reading
My favourite books for new managers
One of the questions I often get from people considering engineering management as the next step in their career isContinue Reading
Levelling up your leadership skills with practice
To learn a new programming language, you learn the syntax, the underlying concepts and spend time writing code. Engineering managementContinue Reading
Team brag documents
Julia Evans has an excellent blog post about writing a brag document as an individual to track all the thingsContinue Reading
Skip-level questions for software engineers
Skip-level meetings are meetings at a regular cadence between yourself and the person two levels above you in the corporateContinue Reading
AMA: I’m a (senior) staff engineer panel
Last week, my colleague Chenxia Liu and I arranged a panel at our Berlin all-hands meeting called AMA: I’m aContinue Reading
Data, algorithms and transparency for curriculum development
In the summer of 2018 the Ontario provincial Conservative government revoked the 2015 health and sex education curriculum that taughtContinue Reading
Management books in review
I became a manager of a fantastic team in February. My standard response to a new role is to readContinue Reading
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