Engineering managers are being tasked with navigating a totally different industry landscape, but VP of engineering at the New York Times, David Yee, says, “Your job actually does not change.”
Many engineering managers will be feeling like their job is changing beyond all recognition right now. As their teams get smaller after rounds of layoffs, budgets get tighter, and new technologies emerge at an unprecedented pace, it’s understandable to feel overwhelmed by the task of leading high-performing software engineering teams.
During his LeadDev London keynote talk back in the summer, VP of engineering at The New York Times, David Yee, talked about how the job of leadership doesn’t change by looking back on tech’s past to see if it might inform its future.
