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Resources for Engineering Managers and Software Engineers

A checklist for engineering managers, business case for a platform team, project lead expectations, performance reviews and others

Gergely Orosz
Aug 30, 2021
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Resources for Engineering Managers and Software Engineers
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Below are documents and templates that hundreds of engineering managers and engineers have used with success at various companies. I'll add new ones to this page, as I come around to the several other templates that served me over the years.

Resources shared include:

For engineering managers:

  • Checklist for (New) Engineering Managers: the checklist I wish I had

  • Tech Lead Expectations to empower engineers to lead projects

  • Narrative/Business Case for a Platform team used to create one

  • Performance Review Example and Template for EMs

  • Promotions Map for EMs to visualize promotions progress

  • Checklist for growing a (junior-heavy) team

  • Checklist for planning preparation for engineering managers

  • Project reporting example for regular engineering project updates.

  • Preparing for layoffs: a checklist

  • Pragmatic Engineer job board special offers for subscribers: posting jobs for free, or with a discount

Hiring:

  • EM interview process

  • Software engineering interview process

Onboarding:

  • Onboarding Overview

  • Onboarding Task List

  • Onboarding Email Example

  • Onboarding Checklist for Engineering Managers

  • Onboarding Check-In Questionnaire that many places use to check-in around the one-month timeframe

Career-related:

  • Resources to find great tech jobs: 100+ of the highest paying jobs, and 50+ places to find promising high-growth startups and a list of the best executive recruitment firms in tech

  • Writing goals and accountability document: to help making progress in becoming a better writer.

For software engineers:

  • A migration checklist

  • Incident Analysis Templates

  • Project reporting example

  • Performance Review Example

  • Work Log Template for software engineers

  • Team Standup Template

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