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Your non-technical background can be a strength as an EM

How to leverage the strengths you bring to the table as a non-technical EM, and how organizations can better support an engineering team with a non-technical EM

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May 7, 2024

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In a world where second- and third-career changers move into engineering or engineering management, you may find yourself with a non-technical leader managing your team. Or perhaps this is you!

If you’ve been following my journey, I’ve been coding since I was 11 but I have 3 non-technical degrees. I do have a technical background, but I know many others who have gone down similar paths to ultimately find themselves in an engineering leadership role without ever writing a line of code in their life.

Can you be effective as a non-technical engineering leader?

The short version: Yes, with some additional support.

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