How truthful should you be during your One-on-One meetings with your manager?
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In the software engineering world, a team is usually made up of a manager and several engineers. The software engineering manager is supposed to be the Mother Hen overlooking the needs of individuals in the team. Some of the responsibilities of a manager include ensuring that meaningful work is allocated, giving feedback and being an advocate for engineers’ growth and learning.
It’s common for a software engineering manager to schedule 1:1 meetings with each engineer in the team. Depending on the likes of the manager, the frequency of such meetings can vary from once a week to once a month.
Often times, we are told that in order to make these meetings as efficient as possible, we should be as candid as possible. Everything discussed during 1:1s are supposed to be confidential. They are like private time slots dedicated for an individual to share with their manager the problems they may face at work, establish work goals or give progress updates. And managers are supposed to keep an open ear, listen and take this…
