Tag: career
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Staff Engineer by Will Larson
Staff Engineer by Will Larson talks about what happens in your career should you decide to progress past Senior Engineer. For context, software engineers typically progress through a series of well known levels: junior, mid (or just “engineer”), and senior. All of these levels are characterized by increasing autonomy and impact: Title Autonomy Impact Junior…
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On interviewing
Many people (millennials, at least) have been trained to kiss ass when we’re interviewing, to basically “fake it til you make it.” This can take several forms: Many of these behaviors actually hurt candidates during interviews, especially marginalized candidates and young people early in their careers. These are behaviors that reduce the signal around whether…