What we're about
Welcome! We’re a group of engineering leaders (managers, heads/VPs of engineering, and CTOs) who care about people and want to grow and learn together. We're also open to product leaders, aspiring engineering leaders, and people who work closely with engineering leaders and care deeply about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
To support this community, we organize knowledge-sharing & networking events on a range of topics, mostly focused on the people side of leadership. We aim to make the tech industry more welcoming by creating a diverse and equitable community of peers and role models.
All attendees, speakers, volunteers, and organizers at any of our meetups are required to follow our Code of Conduct. Organizers will enforce this code throughout the meetup.
Upcoming events (2)
Whether you’re a new manager or are a manager of managers who’s helping new managers step up to the role, this talk is for you!
Engineering leaders are tasked with improving performance and retaining team members, but as every manager will say: “code is easy, people are hard!” We also know that a manager has a big impact on the team – as one example, Google’s Project Oxygen research showed that managers are one of the biggest influences on team performance.
Particularly in engineering, there’s a big jump from being an individual contributor – where the indicators of success are more clear – to becoming a people manager.
Of course, it only gets more complicated from there! If you’re someone managing other managers, you now need to understand how to share your own managerial experience and guide the managers you’re supporting to find their own style.
In this talk, we’ll cover key lessons to help both first-time managers of individual contributors and managers of managers, including strategies to:
- Step away from the code and not just “do it yourself”
- Create and manage a workplan for the team, puzzling through dependencies
- Give enough of a challenge to help someone grow but not overwhelm them
- Effectively channel and represent the company’s mission, values, goals while staying true to your own managerial style
- Champion your team and support their growth within the broader organization
About the speaker
Bear Douglas has over a decade of experience in developer advocacy and developer relations at Slack, Twitter, and Facebook. As a Director at Slack, nearly every manager on her team was a first-time manager, so she has a wealth of experience in being a good coach and helping managers succeed.
Agenda for the session
- 30 min – Presentation and Q&A (this part will be recorded & shared later)
- 30 min – Discussion in small groups, where you can chat with peers about your own challenges and learnings (this part won't be recorded)
Do you have a question you’d like us to cover during the session? Tweet us at @MultitudesCo or tell us in the comment section below!
Find us online at:
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/multitudesco
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/multitudesco/
- Slack: An invite is shared in your welcome message; you can also register your interest here.
- Janet S
- Tomer
- Lora
- 30 attendees
We’ve all been there – you want to be there for your team, but you end up pushing back 1:1 meetings because there’s a lot on your plate. Or your team member wants to practice a particular framework but you don’t have any upcoming work that would let them do that. Or you’re heading into a career development conversation and trying to figure out how to share some tough feedback.
At the same time, a regular piece of feedback from individual contributors is that they’d like their managers to provide more support for their career development..
So what’s an engineering manager to do? How can we help our teams build fulfilling careers while juggling their asks with all the other work on our plate? And how do we balance their development areas with completing the work that needs to be done? Doing this well will not only help our team’s satisfaction and morale, but also support our own progress in our organization – but it’s easier said than done.
This talk will provide concrete tips to help you do better in supporting your team on their career development journey. We’ll talk about strategies to:
- Make time for 1:1s – even when things get busy!
- Focus 1:1’s on growth & development (not work)
- Balance between improving weaknesses versus cultivating strengths
- Design a roadmap for growth and allocate work across the team so everyone gets the right opportunities per their development goals
- See and nurture potential in tricky situations, e.g., if the individual lacks self-confidence, when you need to give hard feedback, or if the upcoming work isn’t aligned to someone’s desired development areas
About the speaker
Rahul Pandey is on a mission to help software engineers learn and succeed. He is the CTO & Co-founder of Taro, a platform for engineers to get expert advice from industry leaders and part of the Y Combinator Summer 2022 class. Previously, Rahul worked at Meta and Pinterest, and he developed curriculum and taught at Stanford, CodePath, and via his popular YouTube channel.
Agenda for the session
- 30 min – Presentation and Q&A (this part will be recorded & shared later)
- 30 min – Discussion in small groups, where you can chat with peers about your own challenges and learnings (this part won't be recorded)
Do you have a question you’d like us to cover during the session? Tweet us at @MultitudesCo or tell us in the comment section below!
Find us online at:
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/multitudesco
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/multitudesco/
- Slack: An invite is shared in your welcome message; you can also register your interest here.
- Lora
- Gabriela R.
- Yosan
- 10 attendees
Past events (10)
- Multitudes C.
- Aaron Z.
- Alexandru G.
- 42 attendees
