Software Engineer to Engineering Manager

1 min readNov 3, 2024

On a cloudy Sunday morning in Istanbul, while reading that week’s highlight posts about engineering as usual :) I realized that I didn’t share my own new managers’ helpful resources blog post series in medium. There are lots of similar posts, I read most of them and still reading. Anyway hope it can create some aha moments for new managers like created on me when I first discovered.

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