NOW YOU ARE Overhead Cost
summary
The talk examines whether engineering managers who stop writing code justify their cost as part of company overhead, drawing on the speaker’s experience at Cabify. It explains what engineering management brings to a growing company and how that discipline contributes during scaling.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 6:23What is overhead cost?
- 12:32Why pay managers?
- 17:50Manager as efficient bottleneck
- 21:25Time and money savings
- 25:18Optimal manager count
- 33:31Cabify's structure evolution
- 39:55Goal: autonomous teams
- 43:32Q&A
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