Aayush Mudgal is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Pinterest, currently leading the efforts around Privacy Aware Conversion Modelling. Ayush has expertise in large-scale recommendation systems, personalization, and ads marketplaces, and in the past has conducted research on intelligent tutoring systems, developing data-driven feedback to aid students in learning computer programming.

Find Aayush on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aayushmudgal/

And for the books that Aayush recommends:

Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (https://amzn.to/48cVdmn)

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big (https://amzn.to/3P5AUOG)

An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management (https://amzn.to/3Z91kUA)

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3F891QndIjUIjLBySIxyuh?si=9...

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aayush-mudgal-building...

From the same author:

- His book on engineering management, An Elegant Puzzle: https://www.amazon.com/Elegant-Puzzle-Systems-Engineering-Ma...

- His blog also discusses management: https://lethain.com/

https://jaymeedwards.com/ provides some good content on his Youtube channel

https://www.amazon.ca/Elegant-Puzzle-Systems-Engineering-Man... helps to understand managing from an engineering perspective

To understand some of the history and context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-BOSpxYJ9M

A bit dated but still useful book: https://www.tablegroup.com/topics-and-resources/teamwork-5-d...

Best of all, for surviving at a difficult organization, invest in yourself and get a good therapist. I can't recommend this enough. Burnout is the worst but you can manage if you have solid, professional support to aid you.

An Elegant Puzzle by Will Larson was very interesting. It's a bit of a handbook and you don't necessarily have to read it cover to cover but instead you can dive into whichever section that is relevant for you at the moment: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1732265186