As a manager, asking this question scared me a little. I posed it to each of the engineers on my team last month in our one-on-one’s and I worried about how they would respond. Did they feel safe enough to answer honestly or would I get fluff answers that side-stepped the question? Imagine my surprise when I got more constructive feedback from this one question than I had in my entire first year of managing the engineering team at HelloSign, feedback about the happiness of my teammates, their thoughts on our technical direction, and ways I could improve both. Now…

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