Common traps when hiring your company’s first engineering manager

If you’re looking to hire your company’s first engineering manager, how can you make sure they’re right for the role?

As a consultant for engineering companies, I’ve recently run into a number of organizations that are thinking about hiring their first engineering manager. While there’s a lot that’s been written for first-time managers, there isn’t a whole lot out there for folks trying to hire a manager for the first time. So, I thought I’d assemble some of the common mistakes I’ve seen:

1. ‘We don’t need managers’

In my experience, the places that claim to not need managers are the ones that need them the most.

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