Ask HN: How do I deal with my engineering team and motivate myself?
Well this may sound very familiar to most of HN but it also makes it the best place to ask this question.
Background: I am a project lead in a Digital Media company and I am taking care of the engineering aspect of our products. I only get a chance to pair code with my team and hardly get any alone coding time apart from few R&D And POC work. I have some 7 years of core development experience and my past 2 roles were Team lead and tech lead handling a team of 8 to 12 member engineering team. I am mostly dealing with large scale complex projects. I consider my self fairly Okay when it comes to my Software engineering concepts. And I keep pushing my team to learn new stuff and educate them whatever I learn.
Problem: Instead of my best efforts in taking care of my team and teaching them engineering aspect, I FEEL THEY DON'T LIKE ME and think I am jerk. I felt like asking this now because this is not the situation in current company but it has been in my past 2 companies as well. So I am wondering if I am really that bad.
Just to let you know I constantly keep asking for feedback from my Reporting managers and my team and keep on improving. However I think that I am expecting too much from my team when it comes to engineering and they may not like me because of that.
Any suggestions on the approach I can take? Let me know if you have any further questions.
Background: I am a project lead in a Digital Media company and I am taking care of the engineering aspect of our products. I only get a chance to pair code with my team and hardly get any alone coding time apart from few R&D And POC work. I have some 7 years of core development experience and my past 2 roles were Team lead and tech lead handling a team of 8 to 12 member engineering team. I am mostly dealing with large scale complex projects. I consider my self fairly Okay when it comes to my Software engineering concepts. And I keep pushing my team to learn new stuff and educate them whatever I learn.
Problem: Instead of my best efforts in taking care of my team and teaching them engineering aspect, I FEEL THEY DON'T LIKE ME and think I am jerk. I felt like asking this now because this is not the situation in current company but it has been in my past 2 companies as well. So I am wondering if I am really that bad.
Just to let you know I constantly keep asking for feedback from my Reporting managers and my team and keep on improving. However I think that I am expecting too much from my team when it comes to engineering and they may not like me because of that.
Any suggestions on the approach I can take? Let me know if you have any further questions.