Job search in 2025. Company: we don’t do coding & system design interviews for our managerial candidates. Candidate: it makes so much sense! I’m so glad to hear that. Company: here’s a link to our personality + IQ test as part of our hiring process. Candidate: 🤦🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️🙃.

Back to public speaking 🥳. In a few weeks, I’ll be sharing what I’ve learned growing from managing engineers to leading managers as an Engineering Director. Can't wait to share the lessons and stories at #WoSR24 🚀. @WinTechSeries

Wow! it's been over a year since my last tweet 🙈 time to share some news.

Thrilled to be joining Yelp today as a Director of Data Infrastructure 🤩🤩🤩 . Yay for data reliability and platform engineering! 😃

Soon I’ll be sharing some amazing professional news! Can’t wait to tell you all about my role which starts later this month 😉.

Meet another table tennis England member! 😅🏓

Don't blame empire builders. Blame the incentives that push people to build empires to get promoted and grow.

Wow, 7 years since I moved to London. Time flies! It’s more than my time in Minsk 😅.

It’s very context dependent. For example, I never wanted to be a manager back in Belarus. The management philosophy there was just completely misaligned with my values.

Fascinating how much difference in the implementation of Eng Management across companies. I’ve seen several examples when people who never wanted to be managers at one place are happily moving to EMs in other companies.

Wow, it’s an excellent write up on how big tech fails to innovate. Tldr all incentives are built to minimise risk. More action equals more risk. In the peaceful times, that makes a ton of sense but it fails miserably when action is necessary to survive.

KPI-driven development.

Sad and heartbroken 💔 . Can’t believe our taxes will be directed to Barclays instead of a nonprofit.

Consensus building takes time. Yup, it’s slower but that’s the price we pay for more democratic cultures where there’s room for debate.

It’s quite unintuitive but exceptionally fast decision making when it comes to complex questions touching multiple people might be a sign of top down processes where people have to follow orders coming from the top.

As of yesterday, I am a British citizen!!!❤️🥰🇬🇧

In the ideal world, I should be able to coach and grow all managers in my orgs to the point when I’d be happy for any of them to become my boss 😁.

When I manage managers, I often ask myself:. ��Would I be willing to report to this manager some day? If no - why? What behaviours do I need to see to change my mind?”. These questions help me think through the specifics and give better and more tangible feedback.

While the whole FTX drama unravels, you know what fascinates me the most compared to the Theranos one?. People don’t talk about the appearance of the FTX founder. With Theranos, pretty much each piece of journalism touched upon her looks. Such different standards and sentiment.

Having done this myself and having coached EMs to do this in a compassionate and mindful way, I’d strongly recommend the guide above ^^. Def worth a listen!. Here’s another one on how to have a challenging conversation about perf issues and letting smb go