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What do you talk about during your 1:1 with your manager ?

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I'll go first. It is mostly operational and never strategic. Updates, status, retention etc. 

What about you?

What do you usually discuss in 1:1s with your manager?

Account Manager

Hello Everyone, 
I’m a software engineer with around 1.5 yoe not sure about what should I talk in my 1:1 meetings with my manager apart from feedback.

It would be very helpful if you can provide some topics or ways to improve the 1:1 meetings with managers.

Like how to talk about money, hike, promotions without sounding greedy or awkward.

1:1 Meeting topics

Consultant

I have read and heard it several times, that in one on one’s with your manager discuss your growth with him, but I never understood it, how to do it in every 1:1 or more than once or twice?
Growth is something very simple to me
Software Engineer to Senior to Principal to Staff etc

And you keep working at next level and you get promoted, but what discuss about it in every 1:1 ?

How to discuss growth with my Engineering Manager during 1:1?

I just started my career, and this is my first job as a Front-end developer.

Everytime my manager and I have a 1:1, I feel like we talk about random stuff like I started exercising, went on a trip etc. 
I don't know what people usually do in monthly 1:1's .

what should I aim for?

What should I aim to achieve in my 1:1's

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

Recently started at my new job, and have my first ‘catch up’ with my manager’s manager. I know this is little to no context, but any general questions I should ask during this 1:1? I definitely need to make a good impression, especially considering the current climate. Thanks!

What should I ask my manager’s manager?

Product Manager

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?

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Hey Grapeviners,

I need your wisdom! I'm currently in an engineering team at my company, but I feel like a fish out of water (no learning at all). I’m constantly scratching my head trying to understand tasks and communications. It’s like everyone’s speaking in code – literally and figuratively!

My real passion? Data analytics. I dream of diving into data pools, not wrestling with the programming geeks. I've told my manager about my analytics ambitions, but I'm still stuck in my current role, learning things I know I won't use as an analyst. It doesn't even interest me to do a simple google search about the stuff they are using. 

I want to talk to my manager about:

My struggles with the current role.
My career aspirations and where i want to go
Moving to a data-focused team.
Still helping out with my current duties during the transition.
Has anyone been in a similar boat? How did you navigate the waters? Any tips on how to have this conversation without rocking the boat too much?

Thanks a ton for your help!

Cheers ☺

Help! Stuck in the Wrong Job - Need Career Advice

Machine Learning Engineer

Currently an intern for a XYZ company, pretty good, compensation is pretty good, I'm an SDE intern, the team which im in is platform engineering, should I switch the role which has something more based on the heavy coding side?

I don't see myself beyond 5 years here, would this team matter when it comes while making a switch?

Advice needed for intern role

This may sound a bit basic - but how do I ask my manager to give me a promotion this year?

Operations Analytics

Since I work remotely, I get a lots of dms asking for *quick calls*.
Every time I see a message, I get slightly panicked. Is it normal?
How do you guys deal with it?

🎧"Quick Calls" draining energy?

I recently started a new job. I would like to share some of the experiences I have had with my manager. I am wondering if these are red flags or if I am maybe being paranoid or thinking too much.

It was quite difficult for me to get into this company and this job. The company is quite great and I was quite excited but some of the experiences I have had with my immediate manager have made me a bit apprehensive.
I would like to share them and hear opinions about it.

Here are some things which have happened which I have not liked so far - 

1. I speak to a Senior Engineer one day and next day my manager asks me if anyone asked me to speak to him. 
2. I shared an insight about a new tool which we can use on a deployment pipeline on the overall pod (under my skip manager). My manager immediately called me and started asking my status update and replied 'Discussing 1-1' in the group to prevent anyone getting visibility of the idea. 
3. My manager pings me whenever I go offline and recently he asked me in a passive aggressive way, 'Please monitor your Teams status. It was away for most of today.' I now feel kind of paranoid to never get up as I feel my Teams status is being monitored.

Is my manager too much of a micromanaging red flag ? I started a new job and my manager monitors my Teams online status.

Yes this is straight up micromanagement and insecurity. 
  
 Just stand up to him man. The more of such things you allow him to do, the more courage he will get and more he will fuck your life.  
  
 Just stand your ground for a few times and he'll understand that you are not the guy he can do this to.

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