Typical 💻 Day In My Life As A Software Engineer (Manager - What I Do Every Day)
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- čas přidán 9. 02. 2023
- Today I’m going to walk you through an actual work day from me in January 2023 as an Engineering Manager with all the details about the meetings that I had, the individual work I did and how I felt at the end of the day. Lots of people in the industry wonder what I do in my role so today I’ll share this with full transparency.
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10am: Catching up with messages
10:30am: Checking my calendar
10:45am: Work on ToDo List
11:00am: My Meeting Hours start
11:45am: Continue with ToDo List
12:00pm: Lunch
12:30pm: Incident Management Review
1:00pm: Review of the 20 page roadmap
1:30pm: 1:1 with other Engineering Manager
1:45pm: 15 min break - YAY!
2:00pm: 1:1 with junior engineer
2:30pm: Another 1:1, this time with a Tech Lead
3:00pm: I take a quick break to align my thoughts
3:58pm: I receive a text from a friend asking if I’m still joining for dinner at 6pm.
4:00pm: Another meeting. This time my teams weekly meeting
4:30pm: I work on my ToDo List for the next day and answer messages
5:00pm: My last meeting - a technical deep dive
5:30pm: ToDo List
5:45pm: leave office
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🙋♀️ I’m Maria, an Engineering Manager at a big tech company and I’ve been coding since I was 13 years old. I love working in tech because building new things and being creative is something that makes me really happy. While on this journey, I realized how lots of questions I receive in 1:1s get repeated a lot so I decided to upload short and simple Q&A videos on TikTok which grew to a small amount of followers. For some questions, I wanted to dive deeper with longer answers which is how this channel started. Thanks for being here - my goal is to help some people out and make their lives at tech jobs more effective.
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I tried to bring value with an ACTUAL day in the life video vs. just romanticizing my job on this platform. I do love the job but I think lots of people don't understand what I'm doing every day so here we go :) Which meeting was your favorite?
This video is so underrated! Very specific and detailed, explained with 🔑 engineering manager insight. A good example of the kind of manager I'd enjoy working for as well!
Thank you so much. This really means a lot to me because I tried to put effort into it to make it useful. 🙏
Fantastic rundown of your day with many, many valuable points. Thank you!
Love the video! It's so cool to see what it's like to be on side other side of spectrum. And wow - a lot of meetings!
Love this video Maria! Glad to see my day to day looks very similar :) Keep it up
This video was an excellent guide for new managers as well.
It really brings structure to your day and it seems like you're a super busy individual.
Thanks for this !
Videos like these are so helpful to calibrate how I'm spending my time as an eng manager vs. what others in the industry are doing. Thank you for this, it was a great watch!
Thanks Maria, I am happy to have you sharing this. Going to have my first supervisor job. Your sharing will help me on my new role.
Great video, thank you for this.
Come across this video and I must say the described EM daily life is very close with super clear insights . Thanks!
The video turned out great! Valuable stuff 🙌
yay thanks yuro!
Super informative !
Great content Maria! Keep it up!
Thank you! Will do!
thank you for videos like thiis. Wish more videos like this.
Awesome, ma'am.
Thanks for the insight. I’m currently a senior engineer and I want to transition to management.
Awesome ❤
Great content! I can definetely tell that this is not a Calibration week :D
i am studying software engineering and watching this video makes me to work even harder.
new fav CZcamsr 😍
Wow this means so much, thank you ✨
You remind me my own manager, responsible for managing a DBAs team (DataBase Administrators)
After watching 07 minutes and 25 seconds of this video, I am happy not being promoted 😅 I do know that some people would like to have this kind of job as manager.
My manager has almost the same kind of worked days
Finally I am happy just to be a simple DBA.
Thank you! It's a very useful video, and rare. Maria, what similarities do you find between your work and the Scrum Master function? What differences?
So Nice.♥️
You have a hell of a day at work!
Just a normal day tbh
1:06 love the hats
Pretty hectic but you manage to squeeze everything in and still have life afterwards. Graduating on December from a Web and Mobile App Design post grad degree. Kinda nervous as I start a new career.
Great video! I'm only a mid level myself but I have a question. Why aren't the senior devs doing the bulk work of making sure code quality is high (code reviews etc?). I've been in different teams where the team lead/ Eng manager/ tech lead will occassionally look at PR's but generally do strategy things, 1:1's etc.
Super Video! Bin sehr gespannt, wie sich der Kanal entwickelt :)
Danke Vincent :)
Hey Maria how do you handle product folks and align them with engineering (tech debt vs shipping features).
I feel like a member of your team since on the west coast.
Great video. The team I manage is transitioning from using waterfall to agile and I can see that my management style needs to change as well. Thanks for the good ideas.
Interesting, I don't think we use any specific style in how we organize our projects and instead just plan and go most of the time.
@@techmentormaria I am a self taught developer with 22 years at the same company. Prior life I had 20 years of management experience. I can see that our old process of setting a full stack developer on a 2 month project and checking in from time to time, will need to change. I also need to learn how to keep meetings to 30 minutes. You had lots of great ideas here and have actually provided me with several things I am going to change.
Great video! Thanks. As an EM for 7 years, I wish I'd had it sooner!
Question: your whole working day is based on the roadmap already made if I understand correctly. Which part would you change if there was no roadmap built and it's a company in the midst of restructuring ?
Helo, for the iten 5, if the missing position is Developer or Architect you thinks is can supply? This situation has already happened to me and I had to work many hours a day, early mornings and weekends until we were able to compose the team, but the management part was compromised.
Great video, learned a lot about the role. However, I have 2 questions:
1. How technically you are involved with your role?
2. How is this different from project management?
thanks,
Nyle
i see smart woman. i subscribed... no doubt... 😂❤😊
Hi there, just seeing your channel has made me realize i need to start over and level up. What editing software do you use or do you have an editor?
I use Final Cut Pro!
@@techmentormaria thank you!
Great video. I would NOT go to a dinner with my friend after talking to so many people :-D
28 years in IT - how do you do tech deep dive in 30 mins ?
Hi! I loved this video! I aspire to one day be like you :) just a quick question, what does it mean that your to do list was "powered by chatGPT"? (in the screenshot you put in the video of your to do list)
Oh! I can't really put a screenshot of my REAL ToDo list here on the internet so I thought it would be fun to ask Artificial Intelligence (ChatGPT) to create a humoristic ToDo list :) If you look closer, all of the items are satire.
@@techmentormaria Oh right makes sense! :) so in that case can I ask if you have any recommendations when it comes to to do list apps? or do you follow a particular way of managing your tasks?
Anyone please tell me i am deciding to do computer science i am interested as well but is it a good career path both in providing sense if satisfaction and in sense money of course ?🙂
As an EM, how much time do you spend on coding? How do you keep up with your technical skills and up to date with latest tech?
In my current role, I don’t code anymore. I read a lot of code and I’m part of technical discussions but it’s not part of my expectation right now to code. (Also I wouldn’t have time for it)
@@techmentormaria do you miss being an IC or any parts of being in an IC role?
Hey Maria! Du machst tolle Videos :=) Ich bin derzeit im Studium für Wirtschaftsinformatik und möchte nebenbei als Frontend Programmierer arbeiten (Js css). Für mein Studium werde ich auch bald nach Berlin ziehen. Derzeit bin ich dabei JS zu lernen. Hast du irgendwelche Tipps für jemanden in meiner Position, also jemand der noch kein abgeschlossenes Studium hat?
Hi Alexander, du alles richtig :) ich hab auch Wirtschaftsinformatik studiert aber hatte nebenbei immer einen 20h/Woche Programmierjob. Es gibt so viele Firmen die nach Halbtagskräften suchen, vor allem in Berlin! Viel Glück 🍀
@@techmentormaria Danke dir ;)
I'm curious, where are you from?
Magst du mal ein Video darüber machen wie es dich nach NYC verschlagen hat, bzw. welche Probleme das so mit sich gebracht hat?
In Deutsch? Ich schau mal, wie viele Leute mir hier aus Deutschland zuschauen :)
@@techmentormaria Darf auch gerne in Englisch sein, ich spreche beides ;)
At 6:50 I’m a bit confused how you ran into another engineer in your kitchen. Good video anyway, that was just a trivial thing
Haha I’m not allowed to film in my actual office unfortunately
Is that amount of meetings typical for everyone at your company? For someone like me who hates meetings and instead values focused work, it looks like a nightmarish scenario
Someday i will be on the same level
Nothing is impossible 🍀
Here I am patching, reporting, providing security, modifying groups, finding license waster, adjusting geo blocking, writing application, syncing deltas users, supporting desktops/servers/mobile and getting 80k a year.....
Sad days.
yep. management is always full of fluff. especially in larger organisations. small org managers are pretty practical, busy and hands on. but you won't find them on social media
Now I understand why the quality of software is so poor these days. No one can concentrate on their job because they are preparing for yet still another meeting. AI is only going to make this exponentially worse. (P.S. I started writing software in 1979 so I understand what you are doing)
Yep, too much BS corporate.
Engineers need time to think, they aren't like any other role that you see in the office where they just chit-chat for hours.
well, that's why you have eng managers. They are supposed to shield the team from unnecessary meetings. As you start working in large teams, meetings are a necessary evil that cannot be completely avoided. I've tried async approaches to replacing meetings, but sometimes, that just delays projects even further.
Is a 7-8h day typical?
to be honest some days are 6h, some other days are 10h. It really depends on the type of work I need to do. E.g. during performance cycles it's not unusual for me to be in meetings from 8am - 8pm but then during the year on a low cycle, I can pull of 6h days if the team is set up well 🤷♀️
do you work at apple?
Not willing to share my workplace just yet ✨
Hey Maria. My name is Deepakkumar and i'm from India I started learning to code when i was 18 it's been 2 years since then. i'm about to graduate out of college in two months. I'm having so much trouble keeping up with the coding but i know i'm passionate about it. I love doing techy things and create websites and i have many ideas for websites and many things in general but, i want to start a startup of mine were i could develop software's for people and other small and big brands. can you please guide me.. i been watching you since not very long but i love your content you give a good feeling about coding in general and making a life in it. But currently i need a good job for myself because my financial situation is not good. please maria if you can guide me it'll be a great for my life. 🥺❤
let me know where to sign up once we are making a movie, "A day in the life of swe" haha
😅
Is she german?
Ja :)
TBH your work do not look like software engineer manager work!, instead you look like a property agent, chat with potential buyer and property owner!
😅😅😅 ok what does an EM do then in your eyes?
@@techmentormaria director's suger boy/girl!
Er hat schon irgendwie recht. Wenn ihr agil arbeiten würdet, wärst du entweder ein Product Owner oder ein Agile Master (momentan hast du beide Rollen vereint) und dein Team würde selbstorganisiert arbeiten. Du hättest weniger Meetings, dafür intensivere mit dem PM oder dem Team. Es wundert mich, dass in den USA manche der FAANG organisatorisch (scheinbar) etwas zurück liegen. Aber ein gutes Video von einem netten Mädel ❤
Soo many meetings. This is why I never want to become a manager.
AI is going to fire her. Absolutely no need for this kind of role
there's heaps of filler roles between devs (who actually produce value) and sales who land the contracts/sales. the rest is corporate filler.
A.I. will relegate yall to "Code Technicians" in a five-year period. Companies ain't gonna pay top dollar for yall no more. Get that money while you still can.
Funfact, by pushing their code to github they feed AI with data. The same data from where ai will learn how to replace them..
Long story short, you don't do anything important.
Hi Maria, big fan, your video really helping me to manage my meetings and team. I hope we'll see some short video on Instagram too. BTW my favourite meeting is target meet, in that meeting we decide what we have achived and what is left behind.
Best of luck for your videos