Posted on Sat 28 May 2022 in Leadership • Tagged with interview, EM
I am an Engineering Manager and an Engineering Leader. What is the difference?
This can be an interview question and it is very important to be prepared with a good answer here.
When I was asked this interview question during one of the panel rounds at Anaconda, I really liked …
Posted on Thu 26 May 2022 in Leadership • Tagged with career, story, advice, wwcode, speaking
When the phone battery drains, what do we do? When the laptop gets heated up, what do we do? We are forced to shut it down, or buy a replacement in the worst case. In this era, the blinking red battery icons on our smartphones, tablets …
Posted on Wed 25 May 2022 in Leadership • Tagged with career, interview, mentoring
I had to replace my sick colleague today for an interview. As an Engineering Manager I do a lot of interviews as the hiring manager. Today's interview I was in the panel to test the candidate's ability & humility.
My last question to this candidate was:
What does success look like …
Posted on Tue 24 May 2022 in Leadership • Tagged with onboarding, EM
I joined Anaconda in September 2021. During the pandemic, although I got used to working in a remote work setup, starting a new job in a remote first setup was difficult.
During my time at Curalie, ~1 year was spent in pandemic and remote setup. Things were direct …
Posted on Mon 23 May 2022 in Leadership • Tagged with time management
It is Monday!
I usally need a lot of warm up time on Monday mornings and get productive on Mondays only towards the second half of the day.
In order to have a productive Monday, I make sure I have a prioritised list ready on …
Posted on Sun 22 May 2022 in Leadership • Tagged with story
It's been a year! On this day, last year, I resigned from my previous job where I was the Head of Frontend Engineering at Curalie GmbH for 3 years.
I had grown in this role into engineering leadership and I could not have been happier with my career path. But …
Posted on Sat 21 May 2022 in Leadership • Tagged with career, story, pitch
My name is Princiya Sequeira and I am an Engineering Manager at Anaconda in Germany. I am from India and I relocated to Germany 7 years ago. I have a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science engineering, a dozen years of experience building full-stack web and mobile apps, and leading …
Posted on Tue 15 February 2022 in Leadership • Tagged with career, job, resume
Resume is your marketing pitch.
Following is an excerpt from "RE:View Series - Resume Review" that I organised for WWCode Frontend in February 2022.
A good advice I have received is - apply for jobs not when you need them but apply for jobs when you need the least so that …