Managing Up - Have You Got Your Manager to Work For You? (From L8 SWE at Microsoft)

Your videos are super underrated! They have been super helpful for me as a mid-level engineer and the cusp of a senior promotion, please keep them coming!

Wow amazing tips on managing up! Always wondered about this, and now will definitely use the magic words. Thank you Kun!

Hi Kun and please allow me to call you Shifu 🙏😋 I am currently facing an interesting phase, and I cannot wait to share with you. This week in my reflection, I noticed two things. (1). I get more autonomy at work; I am using this autonomy to create further helpful tools/scripts the team can use. (2). I get increasingly worried about what my next project would be: I have one or two components that I want to work on, but I don’t know how to communicate with my manager that this is what I want to work on. (Usually they require certain level of familiarity and expertise, so I need to show people I can get hands-on without others to handhold). I planned to look for bugs in the component and try to fix it. However, generally, people would find it strange if I suddenly start to ask questions about how one component (not related to my current project) works. Is this the best way to show my enthusiasm and competency? If so, should I work on overcoming my fear of asking teammates outside of what I work on now? I believe many junior engineers also face similar problems, and I would love to talk about my personal experience to brainstorm what are some of the good ideas to navigate with autonomy (and persuade people that they can trust me with the project). I am anxious, but I have a good heart and I want to be a good and driven engineer. Thank you so much for having a kind heart to help us junior engineers to grow 🌟

I can't believe my luck to came across your channel. Keep up the good work!

Great info as always!!!

Great advice Kun! It really helps put things in perspective with the structured framework you've provided here.

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These tips are invaluable, the content is amazing, thank you!

Great content. You have such good advices that I haven’t heard any where