How to Manage People Who Used to Be Your Peers addresses one of the most uncomfortable challenges facing a newly promoted engineering manager.

On Friday, you were a teammate. On Monday, you may be responsible for performance feedback, priorities, compensation recommendations, and difficult decisions involving the same people. Pretending that nothing has changed can create confusion, resentment, and mistrust.

This episode explains how to acknowledge the new relationship directly, remain warm without becoming overly familiar, avoid sudden coldness, handle a colleague who wanted the same promotion, and demonstrate visible fairness across the team.

How to Manage People Who Used to Be Your Peers is part of From Code to People: The New Engineering Manager's Podcast, an Ultamize produc ...