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
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:
Measuring the impact of an engineering team
Preparing for a reorg as an EM
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
Oncall compensation data
Checklist for growing a (junior-heavy) team
Checklist for the (bi-) annual planning for engineering managers
Project reporting example for regular engineering project updates.
Preparing for layoffs: a checklist
Uber’s Engineering Metrics Dashboard
Staying technical as an engineering manager: resources
Pragmatic Engineer Talent Collective and Job Board special offers for subscribers: posting jobs for free, or with a discount
Software engineering interview process
EM interview process
Interview processes at Sourcegraph
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
Preparing for promotions: a checklist.
Work Log
Self-review for performance reviews.
Numbers in self-reviews for software engineers.
The Software Engineer’s Guidebook: 10 bonus chapters (a 100-page PDF)
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.
“Wartime” vs “peacetime” differences
System prompt for SWE-agent
Security design review template
What is a senior engineer at Big Tech?
A migration checklist
Incident Analysis Templates
Project reporting example
Performance Review Example
Work Log Template for software engineers
Team Standup Template
Reports:
GenZ at the workplace: 2024 (two data sets)
Senior and above compensation in tech: 2024
Code freeze approaches: 2023
Cloud Development Environment vendors in 2023
Shopify’s engineering levels in 2023
AI coding tools: research data and GitHub Copilot alternatives
Curbing vendor costs in 2023: details
Tech compensation changes in 2023
Microsoft’s 2022 compensation numbers
Pay transparency data at Pollen, in 2022 (UK, US, Poland)