Amin Lakhani - Should you elevate your best engineer to be a manager?
Highlights of my conversation with Amin:
Attributes of a strong engineer
Technical excellence doesn’t always mean being the best coder
Impacting the overall organization is a key attribute of a manager
Empathy is a key attribute of technical leadership
Look for opportunities to affect the larger organization
Enabling collaboration between managers and principal engineers
Having “operational rigor”
Meet: Amin Lakhani is the Director of Software Engineering at ServiceLink after spending the previous three years at Microsoft. He has an undergraduate degree from DePaul University in Math and…
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