Episode 95

Why the transition from IC Engineer to Manager is so tricky (and how to get it right) — Marcel Weekes, VP of Product Engineering at Figma

Marcel Weekes is the VP of Product Engineering at Figma, and was formerly VP of Engineering at Slack. He unpacks why most startups get it wrong when they uplevel someone from IC engineer to eng manager and unfurls what stellar engineering management looks like at high-growth companies.

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