From the perspective of an engineering manager, what makes you feel like you just had a great one on one with a direct report?

Article I wrote a few years ago as an eng manager: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20141014225751-9454814-effective-one-on-ones/

Also a badly outdated github repo that I should update at some point: https://github.com/derekbrown/techlead

When you declare No Deploy Fridays and you get zero calls or escalations over the weekend?

I was an eng manager at Google. These were the best 1:1s:

- report was prepared and had clear agenda shared beforehand
- gave and received feedback very well
- discussed growth opps, OKRs, project next steps
- was transparent and communicated extremely well

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