Most of a manager's work is invisible to their team. Based on my time as a software engineering manager and principal engineer at Microsoft, Amazon, Google, this video describes the variety of work a software engineering manager does.
This video should be useful for individual contributors who are curious about the management path, and for those who are frustrated that their managers don't "do" anything.
Note - a viewer pointed out I was using the wrong name for Amazon planning. It's not "OLR", that's performance reviews!!!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
00:00 Introduction
01:05 Three levels of responsibility
01:48 Prioritizing the biggest fires
02:39 1 - Managing the team
05:01 Hiring and firing
07:08 2 - Working for THEIR manager
09:17 Extra meetings
09:48 Conduit and filter
11:19 Planning (OLR)
12:34 Reviews and rewards
13:51 New project investigations
14:53 3 - Company-wide requirements
15:46 Summary
16:20 Appendix - why managers don't code much
17:22 Wrap up
