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<\/p>\nWe recently ran an Open House event at our office in San Francisco. We had a great turn out from the local developer community and had a bunch of really enjoyable conversations. To recap why we do this – we love talking Engineering at Plastiq. When we are at the office we are typically heads-down working on cool new features for Plastiq, but we do like to take a break once in a while, inviting Engineers to come by and visit our offices. We welcome Engineers from around the bay area\u00ac\u2020to come along, take a tour of our office space, listen to a technology talk, meet members of our Engineering team and enjoy some free beer, wine and pizza (not necessarily in that order).<\/p>\n
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The presentation topic for this event was Career Paths for Engineers, an elaboration on the discussion we started in early October with the blog post Career Paths for Engineers<\/a>\u00ac\u2020which received a lot of positive comment and discussion on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/p>\n In the presentation I shared my own experience moving from an Individual Contributor role to a manager of Engineers to a manager of managers. I have learned a lot of lessons along the way and enjoyed sharing them with the attendees. Towards the end of the presentation I shared my approach in identifying potential managers. We had a fun segment of the presentation where we showed a list of job titles for an unidentified company and asked the audience to guess the company (for a prize!).<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.plastiq.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DSCF0269-1.jpeg\")
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