0-to-1 EM Interview Playbook (2026)

What it does

39 chapters covering every Engineering Manager interview round. People Management & Coaching | Technical Vision & Architecture | Org Design & Team Scaling | Hiring & Bar Raising | Performance Calibration | Crisis Management | Behavioral (STAR-L) Every problem includes full sample answers: how to build high-performing teams, make technical bets, navigate reorgs, and communicate up and down. Covers Google, Meta, Amazon, Uber, and top tech companies. $9.99 on Kindle � FREE May 3

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  I wrote a book for engineers that want to become engineering managers2020 · ▲695

  Hey folks. Last year I was fortunate enough to sign a deal to write a book with my favorite technical publisher, The Pragmatic Bookshelf. When I started out as an Engineering Manager many years ago, I found that there wasn't a huge amount of material that specifically and practically helped me understand how to do my job. When you learn to program there's all of these amazing tutorials, examples and guides, but what was there for new managers? In response to this, a couple of years ago I started a blog over at https://www.theengineeringmanager.com which got a decent amount of…

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  Level-up Engineering Podcast2019 · ▲105

  Actionable insights on managing engineering teams

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  Guide for Building Engineering Teams2018 · ▲83

  How to take your engineering team from good to great

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  Product Manager Handbook2014 · ▲116

  Interviews w/ product managers + weekly newsletter

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  Product Management TACTICS Vol. 32019 · ▲111

  A free eBook for modern software product management teams.

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  tenXer2014 · ▲122

  Better manage your software engineering team

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  Clipto MCP▲640

  Let agents source clips from terabytes of your local video

  Work · 18d ago · clipto.com

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  HyNote for Mac▲383

  Free local transcription that is 100% Private

  Work · 17d ago · hynote.ai

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  VoiceOS App Store▲330

  The app store for voice native apps that lives in your notch

  Work · 28d ago · voiceos.com

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  Scrimba Explain▲325

  Ask any question, get a video back instantly

  Work · 24d ago · scrimba.com

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  CleanShot 5.0 with Studio Mode▲278

  Mac-native app for screenshots, recordings and collaboration

  Work · 5d ago · cleanshot.com

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  Brew ▲905

  Like Claude design for email marketing

  AI · May 2026 · brew.new

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  Kilo Code for VS Code▲897

  Parallel agents, diff reviewer, and multi-model comparisons

  Dev tools · May 2026 · kilo.ai

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  StoreClaw▲805

  Grow your store profits with agents that know how to sell

  AI · May 2026 · storeclaw.ai

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  PollyReach▲796

  Give your agent a real number and voice to make calls.

  AI · May 2026 · pollyreach.ai

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  Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model▲776

  Hey HN, Henry here from Cactus. We open-sourced Needle, a 26M parameter function-calling (tool use) model. It runs at 6000 tok/s prefill and 1200 tok/s decode on consumer devices. We were always frustrated by the little effort made towards building agentic models that run on budget phones, so we conducted investigations that led to an observation: agentic experiences are built upon tool calling, and massive models are overkill for it. Tool calling is fundamentally retrieval-and-assembly (match query to tool name, extract argument values, emit JSON), not reasoning. Cross-attention…

  Life & fun · May 2026 · github.com

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  Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian▲730

  Dev tools · May 2026 · github.com