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I got promoted to tech lead. Now what? (self.experienced_devs)

submitted 1 year ago by kris to c/experienced_devs

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Now have direct reports under me. No idea wtf I'm doing, I guess I did a good job? Any advice you have for me?

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[–] mattburkedev 1 points 1 year ago

1:1s have been the most important thing for me as a lead. Gives you a chance to know your team, what they’re good at, what they struggle with. Let’s you head off a bad direction early. When your directs have a non urgent question they’ll probably save it for your next meeting rather than pinging you constantly with everything that jumps into their mind.

30 minutes with a teammate getting them unstuck is more impactful than 30 minutes of coding on some random feature