On Being an Engineering Manager

Re:On Being an Engineering Manager by skj on Sunday February 17, 2019 @06:16PM (#19187516)

> In fact Google's top employee, Jeff Dean, manages nobody.

Not true. He has VPs as his direct reports and thousands of indirects.

Maybe it was true at one time, even in recent years. But not now.

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Re:On Being an Engineering Manager by btilly on Sunday February 17, 2019 @06:17PM (#19187521)

Thanks for the correction.

I am pretty sure it was true in 2010. I wonder when it changed, and why.

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Re:On Being an Engineering Manager by tomnipotent on Sunday February 17, 2019 @06:28PM (#19187575)

In 2011, when he started the Google Brain initiative.

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