Becoming engineering manager was a huge thing for me and it set a new direction for my career, but there were a lot of things I hadn't considered before moving from development to management. In this video I share a few hard parts of being engineering manager and I explain what you can do to better prepare for this role.

🎥 Timeline:
0:00 Intro
0:31 No more teammates
2:13 No more coding
4:01 Social exhaustion
5:06 Uncomfortable situations
6:41 Loneliness
8:14 Building support group
9:38 Preparing to become a manager


Make sure to check my other content for engineering managers:
* https://www.notonlycode.org/what-does...
* https://www.notonlycode.org/engineeri...
* https://www.notonlycode.org/engineeri...

If you enjoy this kind of content, check out my website, 🌏 https://notonlycode.org, where I publish more in-depth articles about software development.

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