Engineering Career Reality

Moving from engineer to engineering manager changed more than I expected. I led people before I had a management title. I knew the work, helped others get started and spoke up when I thought a decision was wrong. I assumed the management title would make that responsibility official. My decisions now affected other people’s work … Read more

In the summer of 2008, I was 23 and preparing for my fifth and final year at the Faculty of Automation, Computers and Electronics in Craiova. I had chosen the hardware track, I was finishing the fourth CCNA module, and I knew one thing with great confidence: I did not want to work in software. … Read more