Episode
Engineer to manager and back again (Interview)
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source · Mar 18, 2020 · 1 h 22 min
Lauren Tan joined us to talk about her blog post titled "Does it spark joy?" In this post Lauren shared the news of her resignation as an engineering manager at Netflix to return to being a software engineer. We examine the career trajectory of a software engineer and the seemingly inevitable draw to management for continued career growth. The idea of understanding "What are you optimizing for?"…