What do you consider to be the strengths of your current role and what could be improved upon?

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Anonymous · Accepted Answer

What’s Working Well
1. Technical Excellence:
 * The team maintains a strong culture of code quality, rigorous testing, and
   thoughtful technical design. Regular code reviews and discussions around
   technical debt ensure that we deliver maintainable and scalable solutions.

2. Open Feedback Culture:
 * Feedback flows openly in all directions, fostering a transparent and
   supportive environment. Leaders and team members alike are receptive to
   constructive input, which helps drive continuous improvement.

AREAS FOR IMPROVEMENT

1. Long-Term Strategic Planning:
 * While execution is a strong suit, we could benefit from dedicating more time
   to long-term planning. This would help us balance immediate deliverables with
   the need to prepare for future challenges and opportunities.

2. Technical Debt Management:
 * Although technical debt is acknowledged, it often takes a backseat to feature
   development. Allocating dedicated sprints or time to address technical debt
   would ensure better system scalability and maintainability in the long run.

HOW I’M CONTRIBUTING TO IMPROVEMENTS

* Advocating for strategic planning sessions to align the team on long-term
   goals.
 * Proposing a structured approach to manage technical debt, such as a quarterly
   “tech debt day” or allocating a fixed percentage of sprint time for debt
   reduction.

Anonymous · Answer

Engineering Manager in amazon is challenging, fulfilling . The demand of leading
high performing team will push you keep on evolving and adapt to ever changing
environment. I have led the delivery of multiple projects with measurable
business impact and along with it grow people, manage under perfomance and get
the best out of them. The least satisfactory one is when you have to fire
someone for not improving despite providing fair platform and coaching.

Anonymous · Answer

The most fulfilling is that I value my ability to make change at Eventbrite.
It's what's kept me there for 10 years. I can understand the high-level needs of
the business or sometimes infer and then creatively solve those needs. An
example of this creativity was working with the mayor's office in Nashville.
Helped to get non-stop flights to the bay area. Nobody told me to do this. We
needed a business, and I filled it.
For the least satisfactory areas, I'd say it's been a change towards top-down
leadership.

Anonymous · Answer

Being the manager of a platform team I find being able to support a number of
products at the company very fulfilling.

Constant context switching is something I struggle with at times.

What do you consider to be the strengths of your current role and what could be improved upon?

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