Lead Time Chats

Gergely Orosz on the decision to go into management

Episode Summary

In this episode, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Gergely Orosz — formerly at Uber, Skyscanner, and Skype — about the decision to go into management.

Episode Notes

In this episode, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Gergely Orosz — formerly at Uber, Skyscanner, and Skype — about the decision to go into management.

Jean and Gergely chat about:

• Why Gergely thought management was LAME - and resisted becoming a manager
• The huge contrast between becoming an “accidental manager” at a startup and becoming a manager at Uber
• Defining his leadership by having a list he had created of all the managers he wanted to avoid being
• How to support new managers and set them up for success
• How a checklist of management activities can create a tighter feedback loop for new managers
• The unexpected loneliness of being a manager

You can find the manager checklist Gergely used for new managers here: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/checklist-for-first-time-managers