How to build and maintain trust with anyone — Knowing how to build and maintain trust has been the best career catalyst for me. I managed to navigate two acquisitions and grow from a Junior Engineer role to an Engineering Director in under a decade. It was a journey of accelerated growth with a lot of challenges. Let’s first…

The million-dollar question: “How do I know if a hire will work out or not?” — Setting up and managing a great interview process that outputs strong talent is crucial. This is essential for your startup or projects because it is how you get smart, talented people to join your team. This article is the second of a two-part series where I share my experience after…

Going beyond textbook wisdom — While management books offer valuable insights and strategies, true leadership and management skills extend beyond the pages. Ten years ago, when I was starting in a team lead position, I wanted to know everything about the subject as fast as possible, so I started reading all the books I could…

6 insights from a Google Exec — Look at your LinkedIn page. How many connections do you have? Most likely hundreds or even thousands. Is that your network? I would say no, and we will see why. A couple of days ago, I finished an Executive Leadership program alongside 100 other participants who wanted to explore how…

Thoughts, tips, and some prompts — I have been hearing concerns lately from fellow interviewers that they are worried that candidates may leverage AI for passing technical interviews. The concern is that using LLM technology like ChatGPT or Bard, they may “game” the system and solve problems during technical interviews. I think you should make use…

How to hire in startups and big companies — Hiring is one of the most important things you do as a manager or entrepreneur. It will make or break your startup, team or project. In the past 10 years, I’ve been hiring and building teams for startups and big companies, and I’ve got some valuable tricks up my sleeve…

How aspiring leaders can guide their followers toward success — Leadership has been a fundamental aspect of human society since ancient times. The role of kings was not only to govern their kingdom but also to lead their armies into battle. Their duty was to defend their people and ensure the prosperity of their kingdom. Heroes also played a big…

How can you increase your impact by 10x or even 100x? I believe technical leadership is one way. I see a lot of engineers and engineering managers struggle to grasp the concept and requirement of technical leadership in software engineering and why is it necessary. There are multiple ways of…

Playing catch-up with the competition is the worst fear of an entrepreneur/CEO/business owner/team lead, you name it, because it is very clear that if you don’t innovate, you will surely be out of business or out of a job. The most innovative team I was part of so far was…