FAANG employees are you assigned work by your manager or team?
I have been fortunate enough throughout most of my career to work in teams where the manager does not assign me any work, or even knows what the hell I'm working on for the most part. I've only been on one team where a manager was part of the team. How many of you are in situations where your manager just gives you tasks and treats you like an order taker at McDonalds? I would imagine this is less common in product teams than say infrastructure, unless the manager also happens to be the tech lead, as is the case with Netflix. Can someone from Netflix shed some light on this? Poll options explained: Manager - my manager controls everything I work on and assigns me work in an ad hoc fashion. My manager is free to send me on a wild goose chase due in one week, then add more work and move the deadline of the first task two days earlier. Pip pip hooray. Team - the team is autonomous and decides what to work on (with the pm's involvement probably, there is still a roadmap) without any manager involvement and chooses how to split up the work as a team. During sprint planning, a designated person may assign tasks to engineers, or the engineers may decide among themselves. Self - Someone sets the context and I get to work on whatever the hell I want. What's Jira?
True for me
Depends on the manager.
I don’t understand this. Isn’t it manager who determines the roadmap for the team?
:) Not always
What? Who does it for you then?
On a high level my manager tells me what to do but good managers don’t micro manage
Why would you want to be on a team where your manager doesn’t know your work? Harder to show value / get promotions
That's what one on ones and sprint demos are for.
1:1s are not for that :) but of course there should be visible roadmap and progress for whole team to see, including manager.
Designer here. My PM assigns "tasks." Typically it's a conversation, lots of push and pull, not "do xyz now." Actual manager just makes sure we're allocated to silos/projects in efficient manner.
Is this efficient and effective and are you happy with these methods
Works for me, personally. I like to manage my own projects.
Self / Team. I get projects (possibly multi months) and then I, along with others on the project, decide planning, distribution, execution, release, retrospect.
I come up with ideas what I should work on myself.
What’s your role?
During the planning meeting at the beginning of a sprint ICs will pick tasks based on story points. If you complete all of your tasks before the sprint ends you just take the next task in the queue.
I don't understand what is it that you're asking?
Who assigns you work?