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Nancy Wang and Gordon Yu

Learn software engineering management using the same practices as Amazon Web Services (AWS), with comparisons to the practices at Google and Microsoft! Gain insights to impress on your first (or next) engineering manager (EM or SDM) role.

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Learn software engineering management using the same practices as Amazon Web Services (AWS), with comparisons to the practices at Google and Microsoft! Gain insights to impress on your first (or next) engineering manager (EM or SDM) role.

Lead instructor Nancy Wang, Director of Engineering and Product and General Manager of Data Protection Services at Amazon Web Services, shares the key business, technical, design, and leadership skills necessary for success at engineering manager roles at the world’s top technology companies. These skills will serve you throughout your career.

Learn the most desired engineering management skills from other engineering leaders , including:

Neha Rungta, Applied Science Director, AWS Identity Joy Idahosa, Software Engineering Manager of AWS Backup Audit Manager Caitlyn Shim, General Manager and Director of AWS Accounts, AWS Organizations, and AWS Service Quotas Cherie Wong, Vice President of Payments Engineering at Paypal Ann Funai, Founding Limited Partner at Operator Collective, former SVP of Under Armour and CTO of MyFitnessPal

Ready to interview? We dedicated the content of this Specialization to teaching how to impress during your next interview and role. Learn how to systematically anticipate and answer the 10 most common interview questions for engineering managers, listed below.

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Three courses

Leadership Principles for Software Engineers

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Learn real-world software engineering management skills to succeed in your first management role at elite engineering organizations. NANCY WANG, Director of Engineering and General Manager of AWS Data Protection Services and Founder, Advancing Women in Tech (AWIT), shares with you the engineering skills cultivated at AMAZON (the #2-ranked company in the Fortune 500), with supplemental practices from GOOGLE and MICROSOFT.

Inspiring Peak Performance on Technical Teams

In the previous course, Leadership Principles for Software Engineers, you learned about hiring your team and setting its goals. Now, learn how to lead each individual team member, increasing their personal best performance, and your team's overall performance, day after day.

Building Products at Global Scale

Sponsored by AMAZON WEB SERVICES (AWS). Learn the skills that transcend the boundaries of your team and enable top tech companies to deliver the most popular and viral products and applications used by billions of people billions of times per day. Upon course completion, you will understand what world-class software engineering organizations expect of their cross-functional managers and leaders, including:

Learning objectives

  • What elite engineering managers do: maximize both "manager quality" and "manager effectiveness," exceed hiring quotas, and adopt and finish goals.
  • Cultivate elite engineers using: team automation, agile methodologies, coaching, 1-on-1s, longitudinal tracking, recognition, and promotion.
  • Turn around poor performers using: feedback; managing disagreements, conflicts, and escalations; and receiving and giving corrections of errors.
  • What technical program managers (tpms) do, how to partner with them on complex projects, and how to become a director of engineering or general manager.

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