Hello World - Introduction
Hi everyone, this is the first time that I am blogging in a long time. I am slowly approaching the point at which I will have been a manager for longer than an IC. So I figured it is a good inflection point to start writing down my thought about IC work, managing ICs, and how I moved from IC and management. Hopefully I will be at some point able to start talking about managing managers :) Here is a short overview what I did over the last ten years: Individual Contributor Amazon - Amazon was my first corporate job out of school and worked on two different teams both in the warehouse management area. My first team was responsible for all conveyance systems within a warehouse. The main challenge on this team was the state of the services, when I started (which coincided with the team being reformed the 3rd time) we got paged about every other day. By the time I left the team we got the number of incidents down to one page every other month. The second team I joined looked into automati