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Péter Szász

How to Lead Your Team when the House Is on Fire

Wartime can be extremely demanding for Engineering Managers. But by ruthlessly focusing on delivery, building a resilient team, investing in individuals, and maintaining their own strength, an EM can lead their people to not just survive but thrive under pressure.

Get hired as an Engineering Manager - part 5: Closing the Offer

We’re covering the entire process of getting hired as an EM together with Péter Batiz, an experienced consultant who’s been helping startups and scale-ups find tech talent for more than a decade. We divided the “getting hired” process into five parts: 🔎 Capturing your Preferences 📝 Perfecting your CV and

Get hired as an Engineering Manager - part 4: Interviewing

We’re covering the entire process of getting hired as an EM together with Péter Batiz, an experienced consultant who’s been helping startups and scale-ups find tech talent for more than a decade. We divided the “getting hired” process into five parts: 🔎 Capturing your Preferences 📝 Perfecting your CV and

10 takeaways from the 10th Craft Conference

As I mentioned in my latest Friday updates newsletter, I had the chance to participate in this 2-day tech conference last week. I took a lot of notes and this morning I finally had time to distill them and select ten takeaways that stayed with me. We were living through

Get hired as an Engineering Manager - part 3: Searching and Applying

We’re covering the entire process of getting hired as an EM together with Péter Batiz, an experienced consultant who’s been helping startups and scale-ups find tech talent for more than a decade. We divided the “getting hired” process into five parts: 🔎 Capturing your Preferences 📝 Perfecting your CV and

The Retrospective #3: 4-day workweek

We launched the latest episode of our podcast, this time with a guest, Benoit Terpereau, the CPTO of Lunii. We discussed the motivations and challenges with the 4-day workweek they introduced recently. I wrote about a similar experiment at a Hungarian company earlier, so it was especially interesting to compare

Get hired as an Engineering Manager - part 2: Perfecting your CV and LinkedIn profile

We’re covering the entire process of getting hired as an EM together with Péter Batiz, an experienced consultant who’s been helping startups and scale-ups find tech talent for more than a decade. We divided the “getting hired” process into five parts: 🔎 Capturing your Preferences 📝 Perfecting your CV and

Get hired as an Engineering Manager – part 1: Capturing your Preferences

I’m covering the entire process of getting hired as an Engineering Manager in this mini-series. With the tech industry changing gears, more and more EMs find themselves out on the job market or considering a switch soon. (See the stats in my last newsletter about close to half of