Security Compass

Teach For India

Tata Consultancy Services

Indus Action

Madhav Malhotra

Co-Founder, QurioSkill. 10+ years of experience of working in technology and non profit space. 

How to Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager

Experienced Software Development Manager

Your team is a system of software delivery. You'll learn about concepts that drive their excellence.

Operational Excellence

People are the fuel that runs your team. You'll learn about concepts to unlock their best performance.

People Management

You'll learn about key technical skills important for effective engineering management.

Technical Skills

Transform your management by driving stronger performance through direct and actionable feedback.

Author, Developer of Managers & Leaders

eBay

Yelp

Allstate Insurance Company

Munchkin

Reddit

Katie O'Brien Ceccarini

Author, Certified Coach, led CS training Yelp, Head of L&D, trained 1000s

May 2026

September 2026

Managers and leaders are not taught how to deliver feedback that changes behavior and drives performance. The result? Managers gets frustrated when people don't implement feedback and performance and business results suffer. It doesn't need to be this way. You can transform the way you manage and become the manager who shares direct feedback and drives results. You can get there in this course. You will become more confident and competent sharing feedback fearlessly. WHAT TO EXPECT:Tactics you can implement immediately.Sessions are loaded with lively discussion, breakout exercises, and a 27-page learning guide to both personalize and customize your learning experience.In just 3 sessions, you will have more tools in your tool belt to more effectively drive performance on your team.You can also expect:- A 27-page learning guide loaded with sample language, exercises, and reference materials to leverage well beyond the course- Videos modeling the Headline, Observation, Ask model- Video modeling how to navigate reactions to feedback- Video illustrating how to effectively kick off a feedback relationship with a new team member- Drafting feedback for real time situations you're facing

You already know why feedback is important, now learn how to deliver it.

How to speak candidly, and with care, using the Fearless Feedback Model

How to structure feedback using Headline, Observation, Ask

How to navigate emotional reactions to feedback

How to increase alignment on the feedback so people take action

How to be human while elevating excellence. 

You are a manager who wants to say what needs to be said without losing the relationship.

You are the leader who puts off feedback conversations out of fear for how the other person will react.

You are a manager who wants to stop walking on eggshells and more confidently deliver meaningful feedback.

Learn the skills + frameworks you need to ace interviews for senior leadership roles (Engineering Manager, Senior Manager, Team Lead). 

Director of Engineering, Career Coach

Amazon

Google

Apple

Microsoft

Alex Kliotzkin

Director of Engineering and Career Coach

EM @ Stripe, Ex-Amazon Bar Raiseer

Stripe

Uzair Khan

Engineering Manager at Stripe and ex-Amazon Bar Raiser

Cohort 8

Cohort 9

As an engineer, you’ve mastered the coding challenges, system design, and behavioral interviews. But when it comes to Engineering Manager roles, the interview process is a different beast. You’ve likely hit a frustrating wall—interviews that feel like you’re doing everything right, but still no offer. You might not even know why you’re not breaking through.The truth? Engineering Manager interviews aren’t about discussing your experience—they’re about showcasing leadership, systems, and strategy in a way that resonates with the interviewer. To land the offer, you don't just need the right answers—you need memorable ones.This course is designed to bridge that gap and help you break through to land that Engineering Manager offer. We’ll focus on how to communicate your leadership capabilities, showcase your seniority, avoid red flags, and tailor your answers to what hiring managers are truly looking for. By the end, you’ll know exactly how to approach the interview process and confidently present yourself as the leader you know yourself to be.

Break Through the Interview Process and Land Your Engineering Manager Offer!

You'll experience mock interviews with real-time coaching feedback

You'll understand the exact hiring criteria for Engineering Manager roles

You'll learn how to convince the hiring manager (Director+)

You'll learn how to nail any behavioral question, even ones you haven't seen

You'll know exactly what the interviewer is looking for

You'll learn how to tailor your answers to go from good to memorable

Managers &amp; team leads that are getting interview opportunities but are unable to break through to land offers.

Senior Tech Leaders who have not interviewed for 7+ years and are looking for new roles (Sr. Manager, Director, VP).

Senior Software Engineers in lead roles looking to promote themselves to engineering manager by landing a new job.

Master the systems to stop micromanaging and transition from a referee to an orchestrator of a self-running team.

Founder at The Strength Hack

Daimler AG

Airbus

Audi

Toll Collect GmbH

Murk Creusen

Founder & Leadership Coach at Strength Hack

Founding Cohort

You cannot fix burnout by working harder. You have a matching problem.AI is making your team's hard technical skills obsolete faster than they can learn them. You cannot fix this "AI anxiety" or burnout by asking them to work harder. You don't have an effort problem; you have a matching problem.Most Engineering Managers spend 70% of their week trapped in the "Mediocrity Loop" - refereeing personality clashes, fixing broken handoffs, and watching their team's shared knowledge collapse as junior roles vanish. You're bleeding runway and morale.This 30-day accelerator gives you the system to break out. Using the Big Five (or CliftonStrengths) assessment, a proven framework, and the Strength Hack AI, you'll map your team's cognitive architecture and engineer the conditions for psychological safety - not just hope for it.In 4 weeks, you will:<ul><li>Stop Generalist Exhaustion: Identify energy leaks and delegate based on Cognitive Fit, not calendar space. </li><li>Engineer Swift Trust: Use the 6-dimension Matching Compass to translate friction into synergy.</li><li>Drive ROI: Transition from a reactive referee to a strategic orchestrator</li></ul>

Engineer Psychological Safety. Stop Refereeing Your Team.

Shortcut the "Storming" Phase to Engineer Swift Trust

Reclaim 70% of Your Week (Plug the Energy Leak)

Turn Personality Clashes into Solvable Data

Restore the "Who Knows What" Architecture Your Team Lost

Walk Away with a "Plug-and-Play" Facilitation Kit

To get ROI from this course, a real-world team (direct reports or agile squads) is recommended to apply the Matching Compass frameworks.

Team Leadership or Management Role

You must take the free Big Five test (or CliftonStrengths) before to map your personal psychological operating system.

Completion of a Baseline Assessment

The Overwhelmed Engineering Manager / Tech LeadYou lead a hybrid or remote team. You want a data-driven system, not another workshop.

The Ambitious Senior / Staff Engineer<blockquote>You're moving to people manager. You want proven frameworks to lead a team without micromanaging.</blockquote>

The People-Conscious CTO / CPO<blockquote>You own culture and delivery for 10–200 people. Your board wants AI readiness. You need L&amp;D that's credible.</blockquote>

Mahesh & his team of mentors (10+) have taught 13k+ PM's on Maven

AI Lead-built early Agents @Google, Meta

Amazon Web Services

Mahesh Yadav 

Ex AI Product Lead -Google l Meta l Microsoft l AWS | 10k+ Alums l Founder - Agentic AI Institute

Trailblazers

Claude Code can solve world hunger but you literally do not even know what to ask Claude Code because you don't know what the engineering/product terms are. If you graduated beyond AI prototyping and now are coming to terms with your lack of technical knowledge and petrified of committing to main this course is for you.Spend 6 hours with me and 10+ mentors to become a product engineer that can build with AI. Who we serve:<ul><li>You work in customer facing roles (Marketing/Sales/UX) or back office (Finance/Legal/Accounts). You have lot of ideas but today cannot bring them to production.</li><li>You work in operations (project/program/analyst) and you are petrified with pace of AI and unable to AI to excel in your current role or get to your next role.</li></ul>What we offer:<ul><li>Learn engineering lingo and fundamentals to thrive in AI world (PRD, Git pull/push, skills and agents).</li><li>What is possible with Claude Code (beyond basics) and get battle tested claude skills (real and .md files)</li><li>Learn hands period. We will not only show and tell - but - build and debug with you.</li></ul>Mahesh has 21+ exp. working at Google/Meta/AWS in AI and is most knowledgable and generous leader on Maven.

Program/Project Managers You manage the people who build. You live in spreadsheets &amp; standups. You coordinate everything except the code.

Designers Your Figma files are beautiful. Your GitHub repo is empty. This workshop fixes the second problem without touching the first.

Sales &amp; Marketing You know the customer's problem better than anyone. You rely on dev for every tool, every landing page, every automation.

Agentic AI

Coding with AI

AI Workflows

Claude Code

OpenClaw

Vibe Coding

AI Evals

AI Transformation

RAG & Search

AI for PMs

AI for Engineers

AI for Designers

AI for Marketers

AI for Founders

Product Sense

Product Discovery

User Research

Prototyping

Growth

Analytics

Tech Foundations

Strategy

Influence

Leadership

Career Growth

Machine Learning

LLM Ops

Context Eng

Security

System Design

Figma

Design Systems

Visual Design

Design Strategy

Automation

Content Marketing

Demand Gen

Go-to-Market

Product Marketing

Positioning

Social Media

Brand

B2B Marketing

SEO & AEO

AI for Leaders

AI Governance

Communication

Management

People Operations

Exec Presence

Storytelling

Goal-setting

Personal Brand

Fundraising

Everyone

Operators

Data Scientists

Business Analysts

User Researchers

Customer Success

Project Managers

HR Professionals

Sales People

Lawyers

Finance

Investors

Real Estate

Educators

Creators

Introduction & Agenda

The Unique Challenges of Engineering Management

Pillar 1: Operational Excellence and DORA Metrics

Understanding and Managing Technical Debt

The Importance of Value Stream Mapping

Q&A: A Deeper Dive into Value Stream Mapping

Pillar 2: People Management and Psychological Safety

Discussion: Crafting Effective One-on-Ones

Goal Setting, Performance Management, and Communicating Change

Gauging Overall Team Health and Well-being

Navigating AI Adoption and Team Motivation

Pillar 3: The Role of Technical Skills for Managers

Discussion: Balancing Technical Involvement and Management

Q&A: How to Handle Work in Unknown Technical Territory

Q&A: Stakeholder Management and Resolving Product Manager Conflicts

Tools for Management and Final Wrap-Up

Executives and senior leaders who set strategy, lead teams, and drive organizational outcomes.

Engineers and engineering leaders who build, deploy, and scale software systems.

Developing leadership skills — inspiring teams, building culture, navigating organizational complexity, and driving results through others.

Day-to-day people management — 1:1s, feedback, performance management, hiring, and team operations.

How to Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager

What you'll learn

Why this topic matters

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Madhav Malhotra