This week Sarah Drasner joins us to talk about her book Engineering Management for the Rest of Us and her experience leading engineering at Zillow, Microsoft, Netlify, and now Google.

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Featuring:

• Sarah Drasner – Website, GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• sarahdrasnerdesign.com


• Sarah Drasner on CSS Tricks


• Book: Engineering Management for the Rest of Us


• The Peter principle


• Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations


• Dr. Nicole Forsgren


• The Engineer/Manager Pendulum

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