Ask an Engineering Manager Elmar Schraml

What possible mistakes should I be aware of as a new engineering manager? Typical mistakes that almost every new engineering manager makes, why they are bad, and how to avoid them. 

How can people without a traditional tech background get access to jobs in technology? As a manager, what can I do to find that kind of talent, and provide on-ramps to a career in tech? What roadblocks are there typically, and how to solve them? For this episode, rather than just me talking, I interviewed an expert in this field: William A. Adams, an engineering manager and advisor to the CTO at Microsoft, with a long history of succesful initiatives to increase diversity in tech hiring. 
Find more info at aka.ms/leap and william-a-adams.com

Holiday gifts from nerds - how you can give the gift of technology to make your loved ones' lifes better.

Some services or products mentioned:
Online backup: https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup.html
Photo backup: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amazon.clouddrive.photos
PC Remote control: https://www.teamviewer.com/en/products/teamviewer/
my favorite ebook reader: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KTZ8249
iOS podcast app: https://overcast.fm/
Android podcast app (also cross-platform): https://www.pocketcasts.com/
Holiday gifts for nerds - what you can give the nerd in your life that they would not think of themselves
Retro gaming:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_NES_Classic_Edition
https://genesismini.sega.com/
https://gpd.hk/gpdxdplus
Coffee table books:
iconic: a photographic tribute to apple
https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/098858171X/
super nes or mega drive pixel book https://www.bitmapbooks.co.uk/products/the-snes-pixel-book
Atlas obscura https://www.amazon.de/Atlas-Obscura-Explorers-Worlds-Wonders/dp/1523506482
the geek atlas
https://www.amazon.de/Geek-Atlas-Places-Science-Technology/dp/0596523203

This time the title says it all: The best books about software engineers, and for software engineers, from timeless classics to books that everybody knows and nobdy reads, to books that are not about software development at all but still highly recommended for programmers.
 
The giant list of links to all the recommended software engineering books mentioned:
https://bignerdranch.com/books/ios-programming-the-big-nerd-ranch-guide-7th-edition/
https://www.newline.co/ng-book/2/
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/effective-java/9780134686097/
http://therubyway.io/
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2
https://pragprog.com/titles/utj2/pragmatic-unit-testing-in-java-8-with-junit/
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/
https://pragprog.com/titles/pwrdata/seven-databases-in-seven-weeks-second-edition/
https://nostarch.com/howlinuxworks3
http://regex.info/book.html
https://www.algorist.com/
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/code-complete-second/0735619670/
https://pragprog.com/titles/tpp20/the-pragmatic-programmer-20th-anniversary-edition/
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3735293-clean-code
https://martinfowler.com/books/refactoring.html
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85009.Design_Patterns
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/head-first-design/9781492077992/
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/head-first-object-oriented/0596008678/
https://www.dddcommunity.org/book/evans_2003/
https://www.infoq.com/minibooks/domain-driven-design-quickly/
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/domain-driven-design-distilled/9780134434964/
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/
https://martinfowler.com/architecture/
https://pragprog.com/titles/mnee2/release-it-second-edition/
https://dataintensive.net/
https://hpbn.co/
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/category/uibook/
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41790.User_Interface_Design_for_Programmers
https://sensible.com/dont-make-me-think/
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-non-designers-design/9780133966350/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peopleware:_Productive_Projects_and_Teams
https://www.pearson.com/us/higher-education/product/Pindyck-Microeconomics-9th-Edition/9780134184241.html
https://freakonomics.com/books/
https://timharford.com/books/undercovereconomist/
https://www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/
https://twitter.com/patio11
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=patio11
https://stripe.com/en-de/guides
https://press.stripe.com/

One of the most frequent topics when giving advice to new graduates about an upcoming job interview is: "What is a suitable outfit for a job interview?". The most important answer here is: Do not worry too much about it, what you are wearing is much less important than you think. For more details, listen to the episode.
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How important are foreign languages for a career in software development?
There are really two kinds of foreign languages: English - and everything else. We talk about why that is, what matters about being able communicate in a foreign languages, and some good ways to learn.
 
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