我面试候选人的时候发现Google 这类大公司的工程师普遍有两个问题：对基础设施端（Infrastructure）了解不足，主动沟通能力不够。这两个问题根植在大公司的运行模式和企业文化当中，在这类公司的候选人当中非常普遍。

The internal standards we used to hire a candidate is way different from the job description posted on the company’s career website. It could be that the company’s using a standard hiring process with a generic job description, or it could be that the hiring managers intentionally keep the description vague so that we can be flexible in the hiring process.

Starting from this post, I will start with a series of articles about leadership skills learned from people around me as I found it is an effective way of learning leadership skills. All examples will come from my working environment. The questions will be grouped based on the topic or the situation.

Why As an engineering manager, you are responsible for business outcomes. And most of the time, you alone don?t have full control over the outcomes. You need to work with multiple other teams or departments, say the product management team, the operation team, the...

There are three tools that can help the subordinates to improve their efficiency: teaching, mentoring, and coaching. Teaching is telling the person step by step how to accomplish the task, mentoring is to analyze the situation with the person to find out the solution, while coaching is to help the person to come up with the solution by themselves by asking the right question.