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How to Find a Good Manager

Recently, I was talking with a colleague at work who was about to leave the company, and they were asking me for any tips to take with them to their new job. In my head, the cliche that “people leave managers, not companies” reverberated, and wanted to relay the importance of looking for good management...

Review: Fearless Salary Negotiation

America loves itself some self-help and self-improvement. Whether it comes in the form of endless LinkedIn Pulse posts, self-help (and self-promoting) articles on Medium, or the vast industry of self-help books, we are all suckers — myself included — for trying to learn and apply simple techniques that reward our attention and obedience with some improvement in...

The Greener Grass on the Management Side

In modern tech companies, there’s a dual career ladder structure for software engineers: they can either progress more technologically (as senior and lead engineers) or advance on the management side (as engineering managers and...

The Cafe Workspace

Our team just had an offsite brainstorming meeting at the Workshop Cafe in the heart of the financial district in San Francisco. It is this neat little coffee shop attached to a spacious co-working space,...