Top Stories published by Engineering Leadership Blog in August of 2017

How to deal with an employee’s drop in performance?

Vincent Mo (Engineering Manager at Google) relates how a previously high-performing staff member became less and less performing. By talking with him, Vincent understands that his drop of performance comes from the fact that as a remote


Challenging structure when faced with an underperforming employee

Simon’s (Engineering Manager at Spotify) direct reports is underperforming, so he develops a way to improve transparency about what the employee is working and to ensure the employee is provided with some much needed


A promising engineer who totally loses his temper

Antoine Toulme (Engineering Manager at Acer) had one of his employee, usually upset, lost his nerves in a meeting and yelled at the team. Antoine decides to make 1:1 with everyone to pacify the situation.


Learn what are your employees strengths and weaknesses and play with it

Gordon (Engineering Manager at Linkedin, and now CTO at Abe) investigates with one of his reports why he has difficulty making progresses on a consequent task he gave him.