Archive - Manager.dev

July 2025

Team got cut. Scope didn’t.

When you are asked to "do more with less"

Jul 29 •

Landing an EM role in 2025

The 5-step process to nail the hardest part - getting an interview

Jul 15 •

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Stop forcing AI tools on your engineers

What software engineers really need from their managers right now

Jul 8 •

When a PM takes over engineering

A PM-turned-EM at Trustly shares what devs miss, what PMs want, and how to close the gap.

Jul 1 •

June 2025

May 2025

The time zones of Engineering Managers

You don’t manage from your calendar. You manage from where your brain spends time (far past, near past, present, near future, far future)

May 13 •

The 3 hero traps experienced EMs fall into

The stories of the fixer, the umberlla, and the hen EMs.

May 6 •

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