The Pragmatic Engineer

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Advice, observations and inspiration for engineering leaders

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Gergely Orosz
Aug 25, 2021
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The #1 newsletter for engineering managers and senior engineers on Substack. Written by engineering manager and senior engineer Gergely Orosz (previously at Uber, Skype/Microsoft, and high-growth startups).

What to expect:

  • Actionable advice for engineering managers and engineers. Topics covered are relevant to those working at tech companies. Get tools and insights to become a more efficient engineering leader. If you use just one approach to make your project, team, or company more efficient, the weekly newsletter already pays for itself.

  • Big tech and high-growth startups focus. Tech is accelerating rapidly: but some fast-moving companies are ahead of the rest of the pack. What are they doing differently and why? I go deep.

  • An independent viewpoint. I don’t take sponsorships of any kind, and disclose any affiliation I would have with companies covered.

  • Join 30,000+ subscribers on the most popular engineering leadership newsletter on Substack.

🔒 For paying subscribers:

  • Weekly long-form articles, plus occasional bonus ones. See the full archive here.

  • 🔒 Resources and templates for engineering managers and engineers

  • No job ads. No sponsored content or other types of ads.

  • Suggest topics through this form.

🙌 For free subscribers:

  • Monthly emails (plus occasional bonus ones). Roughly a quarter of the issues that paying subscribers get.

Expensing the newsletter

Many subscribers expense this newsletter using their learning, professional development, or training budget. When becoming a paying subscriber you immediately receive a receipt.

You can also generate invoices that are suitable for expensing at companies on this page.

Expensing the newsletter

Many subscribers expense this newsletter using their learning, professional development, or training budget. When becoming a paying subscriber you immediately receive a receipt.

You can also generate invoices that are suitable for expensing at companies on this page.

Need an EU VAT-compliant invoice? Email me at gergely@pragmaticengineer.com with company billing details and I’ll send this to you. I’m working with Substack and Stripe to make these invoices automatic in the future.

Group/company subscriptions

Buy a group subscription here. When setting up a group subscription, an administrator can purchases X annual seats for the group. They can then add/remove/replace people in the organization who receive newsletter issues. Here’s how the user interface looks like for the group manager.

The interface for managing group subscriptions

Invoices can be generated to expense groups and additional group members can also be added later on.

Group discounts: Use this group discount for groups of 5 or more seats. Contact me for further group discounts when purchasing over 10 seats.

Discounts

  • Purchase pricing parity: if you are based in a country with lower income compared to the US and Western Europe, email me at ppp@pragmaticengineer.com with your country of residence to get a more affordable option.

  • Students: Student discount for academic email addresses. Don’t have an .edu email address? Email me at ppp@pragmaticengineer.com.

What to Expect

Get a sense of the type of content I write with these essays:

  • How big tech runs projects and the curious absence of Scrum

  • The seniority rollercoaster and down-leveling in tech

  • Incident review and postmortem best practices across the industry

  • 🔒 The perfect storm causing an insane hiring market

  • 🔒 The platform and program split at Uber

  • 🔒 Hiring an engineering manager

  • 🔒 Onboarding to a new company

  • 🔒 Engineering career paths at Big Tech and high-growth startups

  • See the full archive here

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