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Just made Product Owner with no prior experience and tasked to lead and renovate the whole R&D department, how can I do it? [closed]
The software development team in our company is 90% external and in the hands of a single external company, as well as most of the technical know-how acquired in the last 20 years: almost no internal ...
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I fear my Software Dev skills are withering. How could I approach this in future jobs?
Some background:
From 2015 to 2020, after graduating, I worked as a developer for a company, where more or less always managed to do what was expected from me, and ended up being a reliable employee.
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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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Please advise on how to navigate upcoming 1:1 meeting with boss, given circumstances? [closed]
I have documented my difficult work situation in this question and this question
Where things stand is that I am actively looking for a completely different group to be on in the large company I am a ...
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Is this fraud? And if so, to what extent am I responsible?
I am the most senior technical employee at a small company providing software as a service to other businesses.
The company only has about 10 employees, so one of the directors does a lot of the sales ...
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How to manage repetitive no-work or no progress with some of your teammates or employee? [closed]
Here are a couple of things about myself:
I'm a co-founder and joined the start-up after 1 year.
I have real SWE, Architecture and management experience in many other start-ups in Silicon Valley.
I ...
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Startup scaling but ignoring its seniors' warnings - retry or give up?
I joined a small software dev startup in the moment they started scaling up. The software was a working prototype, a very complex one (multi-threaded CPU and GPU app pushing top notch gaming PC to its ...
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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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How to deal with passive management style ("come to me, I won't come to you")
TL;DR What are your options with a manager with "passive" management style, very little teamwork, knowledge sharing, bad onboarding for new employees, very little meetings and no incentive ...
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What to do when as a lead, you are imposed a team or strategy you do not agree with?
I was hired by a company to perform as a technical lead in DevOps/Automation, I have been asked to scale up further, for which I have asked for other devops profile to be hired to help me.
My direct ...
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Switch in professional career due to personal circumstances [closed]
I have worked as a SDE in many interesting places, working abroad and in well known companies in the industry, one of them being a FAANG, for around ten years.
Shortly after the pandemic started, I ...
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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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As a Tech Lead, to what degree should I learn about frontend technologies? [closed]
So the context is that I was recently assigned as Tech Lead for a POD, which holds both frontend and backend capabilities. However in my previous working experience, I think my expertise is 80% ...
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How do you handle colleagues who constantly give you resistance?
I work as a full stack developer in a team of 7 developers. I like to receive the constructive criticism as well as give it when needed.
I love to review PRs and strive to maintain high coding ...
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Is it normal for a team leader to use pull request comments as an indication of performance?
I was in a performance review recently and my team leader, who is a non-technical person was going through the usual: what do you feel has gone well so far this year, what do you think could have gone ...
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