Reverse engineer your Manager
summary
Concrete plan to get promoted by reverse engineering your manager: identify preferred work style and motivators, document them, and tell the manager; act as the technical expert and translate problems into product/business impact with solution trade-offs; map promotion criteria to observable outcomes and backfill steps (for example improve crash-free rate 98→99% or enable company-wide open source (5,000 people impact)); ask explicitly for resources like ask manager for 4 hours/week to study or conference money and request the promotion.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker background
- 2:40Understanding the meta game
- 5:08Self-awareness and work preferences
- 10:30Understanding your manager
- 17:56Supporting your manager's goals
- 18:17Business context and company culture
- 25:21Becoming a leader without positional authority
- 28:12Taking charge of your learning
- 29:17Creating a career plan
- 32:06Five key directives summary
- 33:33Q&A session introduction
- 33:53Manager recognition and fairness concerns
- 35:40Focus on company vs manager goals
- 36:54Dealing with gender bias
- 39:52Collaborating with team leads
- 41:46Work culture and overtime concerns
- 44:36Closing remarks and Q&A wrap-up
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