Episode 25: Why you shouldn't be a manager

10/19/20 • 48 min

Noa Tamir (Data Science Manager) and Raz Shuty (Engineering Manager) share with Alaa Sarhan (IC Fullstack-er) what management is about in general and why an IC (Individual Contributor) is nowadays more than ever empowered to not become a manager for the wrong reasons.
Sneak-peak reasons from the episode:

Manager role is totally different from a lead IC role
ICs are paid more than managers
Missing short reward cycles, a.k.a "It's not about you anymore"
and more in our lovely conversation ;)

Previous Episode

Episode 24: QA, Automation, and everything in between

Noa Tamir and Alaa Sarhan speak with Rony Lahav about the role of QA and Automation, Why do we need QA people (or why developers shouldnât be the only testers), Different Test - Component, Integration, System, E2E, Is Manual QA dead?
We also touched on:

Automation is a software project
when should testing/QA stop? / what kind of bugs/edges cases are fine to be ignored or not covered?
QA vs. Product Acceptance. How much do they conflict, and do they complement each other?
what areas QA covers on top of "functional": performance, accessibility, usability, fault tolerance/recoverability, etc.
In presence of QA team/role, what should Software Engineers test?
Tracking data quality: tracking QA, and Functional QA (OSS tool from King https://github.com/king/tratt-api)
Phases of QA: development, build, release, on-call
What QA and TE gets that devs, PMs, and DS donât get and what do we get when there are better collaboration and comms
Team testing

Music credits: Dan Lebowitz: Come and Get It! Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License