There’s some dissonance between the conversation about how hard it is to get promoted to Staff or Principal and the conversation at the end about staying in one place after Senior.
I agree that knowledge of the codebase, product, culture etc. pays dividends based on time invested, but it’s often easier to convince an interviewer in 45min that you’re ready for the next level than it is to convince a room full of your management chain after they’ve already established a perception of you.
“A prophet is honored everywhere except in his own hometown” :)
Any well-run org should have written plans for each engineer focused on their deliverables for the performance season. If you’re at big tech and don’t have this, definitely get one and then evaluate whether your org is well run :)
“Much more like a date” lol, love it. Can’t agree more that the behavioral is underinvested in. There aren’t a lot of resources out there to help people “package” their stories.
I’ll shamelessly drop my own free Substack for anyone watching this and looking for more behavioral resources: http://thebehavioral.substack.com/
Sounds interesting. I can say that communication skills play an important role in interviews. Recently, I interviewed with one of the MAANG companies, where I cleared most of the rounds except for one technical round.
It as ingeneer from IBM , worked Banks with technologuies and Security Systems Engineer with patent's for TecHelp, TopOne or AnyTech Consulting IT Engineers
There’s some dissonance between the conversation about how hard it is to get promoted to Staff or Principal and the conversation at the end about staying in one place after Senior.
I agree that knowledge of the codebase, product, culture etc. pays dividends based on time invested, but it’s often easier to convince an interviewer in 45min that you’re ready for the next level than it is to convince a room full of your management chain after they’ve already established a perception of you.
“A prophet is honored everywhere except in his own hometown” :)
“Pre pip”: we call that a growth plan.
Any well-run org should have written plans for each engineer focused on their deliverables for the performance season. If you’re at big tech and don’t have this, definitely get one and then evaluate whether your org is well run :)
“Much more like a date” lol, love it. Can’t agree more that the behavioral is underinvested in. There aren’t a lot of resources out there to help people “package” their stories.
I’ll shamelessly drop my own free Substack for anyone watching this and looking for more behavioral resources: http://thebehavioral.substack.com/
Sounds interesting. I can say that communication skills play an important role in interviews. Recently, I interviewed with one of the MAANG companies, where I cleared most of the rounds except for one technical round.
Great job!
It as ingeneer from IBM , worked Banks with technologuies and Security Systems Engineer with patent's for TecHelp, TopOne or AnyTech Consulting IT Engineers