This week (while I’m on vacation, woohoo!) I’m hitting 2 years as an engineering leader at Spot. As I just went through performance reviews with most of my team face-to-face prior to heading out on vacation, reflecting on my own time here at Spot was very top of mind. I thought I’d do a little 2 year recap and my biggest takeaways for a light newsletter while I’m away.
I’ve worn many hats in the 2 years I’ve been at Spot: managing a single team, managing all of Engineering (2 teams), splitting those 2 teams into 3, hiring a bunch of engineers, going back to managing a single team, opening our first international office in Poland, and now I’m managing that same engineering team as well as our newly formed IT team. I currently have 10 direct reports and 0 managers (so I’m essentially a line manager with a Director title) but that’s life at a startup.
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