Engineering | People | Purpose
"My utilization is too high! My latency is increasing, I've got too many cache misses, my search results aren't relevant, I'm way above the threshold and all my alarms are going off, especially in the middle of the night." Ever feel this way as an engineering manager - that your compute and storage resources aren't... Continue Reading →
Video of my talk, "Keeping up your technical skills as a manager," is now posted on YouTube, along with the whole playlist of all talks from #calibratesf. https://youtu.be/K9emor4-ewU It was an amazing speaker lineup - here are just a few of my fellow presenters. https://twitter.com/kathleencodes/status/1177703695921770496 And yes - it was just as much fun as... Continue Reading →
One of the most common questions I hear when mentoring engineers is whether a person should pursue engineering management. I usually take this to mean that they are actually looking for a leadership role, and I want to help them discern whether that might be as a primarily technical leader or as a managerial leader.... Continue Reading →
Self-esteem is the ability to see yourself as a flawed individual and still hold yourself in regard. - ESTHER PEREL
In a crowd of attendees at the O’Reilly Velocity conference this month, I asked a room of mostly managers how many of them had coded within the past week; within the past 6 months; or within the past year (including side projects, open source contributions, etc.). With all three of those categories, we had about... Continue Reading →
[Photo: ViewApart/iStock] I was recently interviewed by Michael Grothaus of Fast Company for my perspective as a senior hiring manager in engineering on how we hire engineers at Twitter. I’m incredibly proud of the work we’ve invested both in a great candidate experience as well as in managing bias. More details in my interview here: Fast... Continue Reading →
I had the privilege of giving this talk at the North Bay Python conference this weekend. What a great, supportive crowd! On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcO-U1leTho&sns=em Slide Deck: http://bit.ly/2iEqc6O Here's the interactive word cloud the audience contributed to during the talk: https://twitter.com/kathleencodes/status/937403090231107584
Don't confuse drama with happiness. - RON SWANSON, PARKS AND REC
Here's a talk I gave at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Orlando, Florida this month. http://goo.gl/8zaEyn
When we managers build teams, we tend to focus on processes for improving efficiency, retention, and performance. But when it comes to change, what you especially need are systems that will build in resilience. Some of the suggestions below are common management techniques, but I’ll point out how they contribute to building resilience.
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. - MARTIN FOWLER
Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. - PEMA CHÖDRÖN
In August, I started my role as an engineering manager at Twitter. I came to Twitter looking to level up my technical skills and instincts, gain more management experience, and work on a collaborative team, and I’ve happily found all three.
Kathleen Codes 