Very often,  
 1) your manager should know what you are doing 
 2) he should understand with efforts you are putting 
  
 Do this without offending team lead

Software Developer

I am a Software Engineer. How much should I connected with my manager because everything managed by team lead?

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How much should I connected with my manager?

Software Engineer

How much should I connected with my manager?- Grapevine

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Need guidance -
I have joined a company in Nov-22. I am performing really well and hence, my managers (both onshore and offshore) are very happy with my performance.

Recently, my manager (and us 3 reporting to her) have been put under a Sr. Manager.
The dynamics have been difficult between my Manager and the Sr. Manager.
Now, my rapport is good with both of them (as this is being supported by my positive feedback from multiple projects and BU owners).

As I am connected with my manager (who keeps it with herself) a bit more as compared to the Sr Manager (who is very outspoken and clearly shares the issues he has with her approach).

I know and understand very well that I might just be a spawn for both of them in case of unforeseen issues.

Could you all please guide me how to manage the connection with both?

I have been thinking about focusing on my job and keeping "close distance" with both. Would this help? Or based on your experiences, is there any other approach that I should explore?
Please provide your guidance.

Need guidance

My teammate is very annoying😡
Whenever he is stuck with a problem, he just spends a very little time on it, and if he is not able to find a solution he gets me on the call and tries to get it solved through me and I kind of baby spoon him for the solution. This is a repeated practice and I am sick of it.
Sometimes I thought to confront him but then I kind of push myself back thinking how he might feel about it.

Please give me genuine suggestions on what should I do? Should I discuss this with my manager/lead? Or something else

PS: He is elder than me but we are on same designation.

Pissed with my teammate

It's been almost two years since I have been working for a startup and I report to a founder. The work has been quite remote and the teams collaborate remotely. How often should I have one to one sessions with my manager? The last time we had a one to one was during my appraisal which happened a year ago post which we never met 1:1. However, we meet once a week on a group staff meetings which is driven on a specific business agenda? Is this something healthy?

What's the right level of communication you need to have with your manager?

Consultant

I myself am a Software dev with more than ten years of exp. 

I mentored a bunch of folks and was active in lot pf communities. I have been noticing this trend for more than couple of years about how freshers and developers with experience of less than two three years are aggressively looking to switch companies to target 30L or 50L or whatever they are currently looking for. 
But I feel this is really bad for future in terms of career growth. I am not against looking for the best offer, but I feel people recently don’t have any priority for career growth. 

I am trying to understand their perspective. I am not jealous of any of these. Heck I prefer that they get more, so that they have to increase my pay to keep up with current trends. It’s just when people ask me for career guidance I don’t want to sound like a jerk to prioritise good work over good pay. 

Can you guys share your inputs/perspectives?

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Staff Engineer

Hey guys, i am going to be a manager for the first time in a company that i have been working at for 3 years and I have people joining me from monday.. any tips for being a good manager?

Going to be a manager for the first time

- Just be receptive to their thoughts, understand their povs. 
  
 - Help them understand their role and your expectations from them clearly. 
  
 - Direct manager plays a huge role in someone’s POV about the organisation, set some biweekly or monthly one on ones to understand/tackle problems they are facing. use the same meeting to communicate your expectations from them. 
  
 - One thing that is often neglected is, making sure your team members have a visibility outside your team as well. Promote a culture where in your manager also knows about your subordinates and what they are good at.  
  
 - Provide them your support towards their career goals. 
  
 - Finding a good balance between becoming too strict (getting work done) vs too supportive ( some lemons take advantage of this). 
  
 If you end up doing half of the above they will remember you throughout their career. I was fortunate enough to have two manager in my career like that. Both of them I still reach out for career guidance.

Product Manager

Hey all,

I have 10 years of experience and currently I am a senior software engineer in 100 years bank.  In the mid year I had a good rating. Before year end i would like to request for a promotion to a Team Lead. What should be the approach to request/ask the manager? Please guide me

Should I Ask my manager

Software Lead

I'm relatively early in my career, and has been working as a Program Manager (it doesn't mean that I have anyone reporting to me). I love what I do. The pay is also decent. 

I also like software engineering (app development mainly). I used to code regularly and has got some apps on the Play Store as well (hobby projects, not big). 

I'm confused whether I should continue as a Program Manager (going down the managerial route) or switch to a Software Engineering role. I feel like I should get some software engineering experience before being in a role working closely with Software Engineers. But, another thought is why move away from something that I love doing. 

I'm a bit scared on taking a decision (grass would always be greener on the other side). I don't know anyone like me in the same route.

Note: I work at a fortune 50 organisation, awesome team/manager, and all of them are completely supportive of whatever decision I make. 

My manager is happy to help me grow in any direction (both at the same time as well), but spending energy on one would yield better results. 

Age: <25
Education: B.Tech (no MBA)
Exp: ~ 2 years

Note: I would definitely love to be a good manager down the lane (always liked working with people). 


(I don't want to make this into a thread to fight on coding v/s non coding roles)

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So since past few days, I'm getting feeling that they are going to sack my manager and are going to promote me to his level. They have already started sharing sheets with me whose access I didn't had earlier. It's a team of 6-7 designers, and I'm senior among them. Now, if they promote me toh manage this team, how should I ask for hike? What important things should I highlight so that I can make a good case for myself? Should I let them give me additional responsibilities and wait till june-July for appraisal? 
 Appreciate all suggestions

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Product Designer

Hello guys, I'm 2023 fresher, I just got a job  as  a frontend developer, it is my first job, but from past couple of days, I feel very anxious and I'm nervous and shaking, sometimes I feel I don't know lot of things at work,  I can't stop thinking about it,   sometimes  I feel like they might fire me from my job bcz maybe my work doesn't meet their expectations as much as they expect, but I'm working hard, " aap me se kafi senior kabhi fresher rahe honge" I would be happy , if you will tell me how to overcomes this, 

Thankyou in advance ♥️

I'm nervous in my first job

Micro managers

Currently have 10years of experience and am at cross roads of next steps in career. Need help from senior folks here to know pros and cons on either directions I have a chance to move up the ladder

Want to know career opportunities say next 10-20 years and pay as well. 

As for me, love hands on tech but scared how long can I sustain the mojo. 

People management wise not bad but need to learn many steps in there to become great.

If it’s of any help current TC: 60L

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I work in a startup. We're currently on an ongoing pivot. I started working here as a founding engineer. I have worked here for around 2 years now. Majorly i worked on frontend part with react native (which is totally a new thing for me when i joined). During my tenure here there was no senior engineer who could review my work and give me the skills i required to build my career. Our founder was happy if the app was working fine. During the initial phase we needed to launch the app as soon as possible so i quickly learned the basic things i needed to make an app with react native. In this time all of these things (js and web world) are very new to me as i was coming from developing native android apps with java. Now im trying to switch so that i can work with a team of experienced engineers. While attempting interviews for frontend engineer, I found that whatever I've done in my current job was nothing more than a college project and I really didn't got to learn any industry level stuff. I'm feeling like im still a fresher out of college. 

I tried working on my frontend skills but as we all know it's a very huge field. Html, css, js, frontend frameworks, hell lot of libraries.

I'm feeling so overwhelmed.

Whenever i attend a new interview i get to know new concepts which i never knew exist.


Any suggestions for me guys?

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I feel there is no light for this tunnel for many more months to come. 11150+ Applications for 1 Post. Can't imagine the level of competition.

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Analyst

I have 7 YOE in Web technology, .Net core, react, sql server, Azure services, DevOps. My current salary is 11 lpa.

Am I underpaid or overpaid?

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Fresher here. My manager is insisting on networking with seniors in the company and dropping them messages. How exactly can i do that? I wfh btw, would not do it today because obviously I don't want to ruin their Friday.

 Am i crazy to think that online networking is harder than offline networking? I'm a huge introvert.

If you are mid/senior level, would you be irritated to see a message from a random new hire? If no, what sort of message would make you happy/not annoyed etc etc?

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