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Last month our company president in the US announced that the electronics manufacturing department in Australia (former head office) will be made redundant and production is moving to the US. The R&D team of 8 electronics and software engineers in AU has been assured that their jobs are safe but 3 have already resigned. The US has a small engineering team but have plans to hire 4 more engineers.

What should we do to boost morale and prevent further resignations? Promise a bonus if they stay for 12 months? Immediate salary increases? Expedite hiring replacements for the engineers who resigned? Invest in professional development training courses for the remaining engineers?

One of my directs showed me a job advert for a VP of Engineering and asked if my boss had resigned. There is no doubt that the advert is for our company and it’s the first my boss had heard about the advertised position. He suspects his boss and some of the other managers are trying to get rid of him. Is this kind of secret conspiracy common? It’s also possible that I will be demoted back to an individual contributor role and my boss will report to the new VP. Anyone had this happen to them?

I’ve been asked to find an embedded software engineer for a short (4-6 weeks) project. Trying to weigh up getting a contractor through a recruitment agency to work in the office vs finding someone who can do the work remotely. Any good experiences with remote freelancers out there?

My boss has suggested for me to attend a Doulos Embedded security course[1] but I don’t want to travel.

Any suggestions for some online courses (free or paid) I could do? Any experiences with learning about security you are willing to share?

We make embedded Linux products that run a lot of legacy code written in C/C++ that have huge security holes. I need to learn how to close the holes and improve our design practices for future development.

[1] https://www.doulos.com/content/training/emblinux_security_comprehensive.php

Our team’s engineering and project managers are based overseas. This year I’ve been acting as the local manager as well as a developer on some projects.

The company has recently hired an additional project manager overseas who has already started excluding me from project meetings. Another project manager has been hired to work in the local office and is starting next week.

I get the feeling I’m now meant to be sitting in the corner with my headphones on.