This article shares hard-earned truths for engineers becoming managers. It covers the shift from teammate to authority, handling stress and sensitive information, mastering feedback and networking, and staying effective amid meetings and politics. It ends with tips on training yourself, managing up, and finding peer support.

This article explains how to turn routine 1:1 meetings into strategic sessions by covering three key topics: current status, career growth, and future direction. It stresses that strong manager relationships drive promotions and offers a simple framework to structure each meeting for maximum impact.

This article outlines four clear indicators that your manager has disengaged—lack of specific feedback, being passed over for new projects, disappearing 1:1s, and postponed career talks. It then offers direct steps to re-engage them by asking for expectations and presenting a concrete growth plan.

Users in an organization must be assigned licenses to use Gemini Code Assist Standard and Enterprise, with options for automatic or manual assignment. License management requires specific IAM roles and can be performed through the Google Cloud console or API. Administrators can also track license usage and adjust the number of licenses as needed.