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Common traps when hiring your company’s first engineering manager

How to recruit a manager who can lead your team to success
February 23, 2022

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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