Jason Cohen

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1,168 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2024 last heard 27 Jan

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Anything that's important must be a team.

so that when there's some issue there, the company proceeds.

And that means you have to have managers.

And if you think about it, this is going to be a very different skill set.

But engineers in particular don't understand this.

If you ask an engineer, what is a good engineering manager, the first thing they say is?

They have to be great at writing code.

They basically describe an architect or something.

And they're completely wrong.

Now, it's not true that a non-technical person should be an engineering manager.

Of course they need to speak the language, of course.

But their job is not to be the best engineer.

Hopefully you have that already.

Their job is to build the team, and to work on conflicts, and to figure out these priorities, and to work with other teams, and so on.

Especially engineers, they don't interview for this ever.

If you ask an engineer when they interview their manager what they ask, they never ask this stuff.

It's always like coding questions, right?

They don't get it.

You may not get it either if you're a founder and you're not used to this and you're not used to building teams.

So this is something where you have to change your mindset.

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