The Journey of a WIT - S3 E.10 with Marissa Mocenigo, Engineering Manager at Taxfix

On this week’s episode of a Journey of a WiT, Elly is joined by Marissa Mocenigo, Engineering Manager at Taxfix. 

Marissa is based in Berlin where she is currently focusing on growing her teams and enjoying the exciting challenges that brings! Marissa originally took a computer science class and enjoyed creating things so switched her major to computer science, worked in robotics and was hooked! When she was younger she built games for friends and was very entrepreneurial thinking, making websites, playing with graphics and wanting to start businesses. 

Marissa has explored lots of different paths in her career, moving to Berlin, joining a startup and then moving on to her first management role. She loves the amount of skills she draws on to be a leader, how the stressors have changed, but loves looking back on the impact and effect of her work. Her key lesson from being a leader? You can’t make everyone happy as a manager, you have to make them productive and make sure they have the things they need. Marissa reckons her biggest challenge is working out what makes everyone work well together, there’s not always a logical solution when people are involved!

In her career, Marissa has loved working with some amazing female engineers, who still help her out! She is always aspiring to be more like the ace women who handle such a male dominated environment and really enjoys mentoring and giving back. Her words of wisdom – don’t compare with other people but with your past self, ask “what have I learned in the past week?” and give yourself the time to praise your own achievements. We think Marissa has some amazing stories to tell – have a listen and let us know what you think. Support the show

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