Engineering Management & Leadership · 300-level
Engineering Management & Leadership
A staff-level deep dive into the actual job of an engineering manager — from the IC-to-manager transition through 1:1s, feedback, hiring, delivery, technical strategy, culture, and managing up and across. Every lesson is a concrete situation with a framework you can use on Monday.
EMG-3013 creditselectiveno prerequisites
What's inside
Sections & lessons
01
The manager transition
- Your output is now the team's outputconcept40 min
- The four failure modes of the first-year managerconcept35 min
- Reading your calendar as a leverage auditconcept35 min
- Auditing your first 90 days: stop, start, keepreflection30 min
02
1:1s & coaching
- Running a 1:1 that isn't a status meetingconcept40 min
- Active listening and the questions that open people upconcept35 min
- Coaching, mentoring, directing, delegating: matching your mode to the momentconcept35 min
- Career conversations that go beyond the next promotionconcept35 min
03
Performance & feedback
- Radical candor: care personally, challenge directlyconcept40 min
- Continuous feedback with SBIconcept35 min
- Performance reviews without recency biasconcept40 min
- Underperformance and PIPs done humanely and defensiblyconcept40 min
04
Hiring & team building
- Sourcing and the top-of-funnel mathconcept40 min
- Structured interviewing that actually predictsconcept40 min
- Designing bias out of your hiring loopconcept35 min
- Onboarding and team topologyconcept40 min
05
Delivery & planning
- Estimation without the fantasyconcept40 min
- Roadmaps as commitments, bets, and directionsconcept35 min
- Feature work vs tech debt: allocating the budgetconcept40 min
- Protecting focus and a blameless incident cultureconcept40 min
06
Technical strategy & decisions
- Setting technical direction without writing all the codeconcept40 min
- Delegating decisions with clear owners and decision logsconcept40 min
- Build vs buy vs adopt: a decision you can defendconcept40 min
07
Culture & psychological safety
- Psychological safety is a measurable team propertyconcept40 min
- Building trust and running healthy conflictconcept35 min
- Inclusion as an operating practice, not a posterconcept35 min
- Remote and hybrid team healthconcept40 min
08
Managing up & across
- Managing up: giving your manager what they needconcept40 min
- Cross-functional partnership and org designconcept40 min
- Leading through change: your leadership operating systemreflection30 min
This module ends in a gate you can fail.
That's what makes passing it mean something. Take the DSAT, get placed, and start earning.