Tag: career
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Promotion based development
Brent Simmons highlights how corporate cultures often prioritise promotion-seeking over real innovation, a reality I’ve seen myself. Even after reaching Principal Engineer, I realised titles are often cosmetic distractions from the work that actually matters. We need to stop chasing arbitrary milestones and get back to the pure joy of building.
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What kind of principal engineer are you?
What kind of principal / staff engineer are you? This is a really good guide around what each type of role entails. One of the reasons why a single levelling guideline for an IC is really tough. https://staffeng.com/guides/staff-archetypes The four common archetypes of Staff-plus roles I encountered are: ❶ The Tech Lead guides the approach…