Run of discussion

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title role backgroung live in bay area

family?

12 years at box goigng up the ladder from SWE to VPE

Let’s start from the top ; Phd

what phd was about, where

why go to the industry instread of staying in research and academics

crashed stanford career fair - met the team

Why Box? What was attracting? (enterprise, team, recognition phd, visionary ceo)

first woman on the team - 6 people in backend eng team

scalability layer for database

remained solo after people left - tech lead

made a case to

clear on the choice going into management

Box gave out the 2 titles.

Why management? clear notion of the tech track, bigger jump going into management so curious. bigger learning experience

Agenda: what does it take to be a great tech manager

then loved it

despite phd in narrrow field, likes looking at all aspects

as a manger you deliver output through tech mean - people and team and processes are another facette

built her firstteam

management as opportunistic role - asked to take on more

still today - the original team is still under me

there needs have a narrative when taking on more teams.

similar to architecture - it needs to makes sense.

example when yo had to

“What’s the unique vantage point of your team”

dont try to accumulate scope for the sake of it

- job as a leader is to simplify things - it;s all a game of simplification - very similar to phd and research work

-be impact focus - you want to become this amazong manager - dont be too people oriented

dont Baby people

go from “i am th emanager of those 5 peopele” to “this is the scope I own for the org”

people are just one aspect

you’re accountable for a scope, not people

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