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How can one determine the most effective method for establishing a success metric for a quarterly objectives?
My manager recently took on the additional role of Frontend Architect, and he's asked me to step up and assist with day-to-day responsibilities for the team. Currently, I hold the position of ...
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Duplicate project activities in corporate R&D
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work for a large corporate providing HW/SW that often lacks alignment between sites across the world.
In the past three years I was fortunate enough to be allocated to a corporate project where we ...
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Want to grow from technical role to management role with no path ahead [closed]
I've been in technical roles as an engineer working in R&D for a couple companies for many years. During the pandemic I unofficially drifted away from more technical tasks to more of a project ...
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Transitioning from specialist to manager role
I have recently transitioned from an individual contributor at senior scientist level to a team lead role, where the first task has been to build my own team from scratch. It has been an interesting ...
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Nearly Perfect Offer, Except for Title
I'm about to receive an offer that is quite aligned with my experience, and the pay is excellent. However, I'm concerned about the implications of the title change based on my career trajectory.
At my ...
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Team relies too much on me for devops, which isn't what I want to do
TL;DR: My team's planning and software development practices are awful. I want to do ML research but painted myself into a corner by taking the lead on development instead. Things are improving too ...
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Scope and responsibilities change after starting at a new job
I started a new jobs a few months ago. I signed up to run a business group at the company which has three departments.
Two months after I joined, the company wanted to spin off my business group as a ...
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I am a full-stack engineer but my manager wants to make me do frontend development exclusively
I will soon have a meeting with my manager, in which she will want to assign me to exclusively frontend development. I am a full-stack engineer and enjoy both frontend and backend development. But the ...
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Reasons someone would avoid working on career growth
In my team I wanted to dedicate time for people's growth. I gave each of them some material and actions to do, to start working together on a development plan.
All my team members started on this and ...
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How to get out of a situation where you are a useful bottleneck? [duplicate]
I am a data scientist in a big company (10K employees).
I have to say I appreciate my job (for now) and leaving is not my preferred solution, even though it's in scope.
So, in the last 2 years, I ...
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Not receiving feedback from raised concerns, what else can I do?
For the past four years, I have been a back end developer in a small, UK-based software development team in a large organization. I have been at this company for 7 years.
Last year, I raised several ...
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How to split your direct reporters to teams when your manager is against it?
A friend of mine is actually facing this problem.
He currently manages around 12 engineers as their direct manager. He's unable to effectively perform his job since he's supposed to have a very hands ...
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Manager focusing solely on personal career
I have a manager that is aware of my career objective to transition to her (managerial) role.
In our one on one meetings she was encouraging the idea but I noticed that no real progress in any ...
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Dilemma: How to answer an unsupportive supervisor when they ask, "How are things going?"
Some supervisors are more supportive and helpful than others. The ones who aren't supportive, are often expected by their own supervisors to at least make the attempt to be supportive by talking with ...
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What is an effective way to evaluate and assess employees on a non-management career track?
My company is growing pretty quickly, and I'd like to make sure we have a career path that lets people move up without tying that exclusively to management roles.
I'm in control of this, and am ...
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