There are a lot of factors that go into picking the right team. Choosing based on what type of work you enjoy is important, but what about career growth? Let’s discuss how choosing a product vs infrastructure team will affect your Staff+ career growth.
Having a motivated nice fun team is pretty important. Not a big fan of having teammates that will constantly shout at each other and shut each other's ideas down. Having a motivated nice fun team can help with your growth as you can learn from each other and you're constantly learning with them.
It's also nice when you can hang out together right after work and have a drink or do some activities together. Building lifelong friends is important in life.
The bad thing about in person social time is dealing with traffic.
Just thinking about driving back and forth across the bay bridge in SF for five days a week, with traffic, would dramatically increase people's stress by a lot.
Apr 7, 2023·edited Apr 7, 2023Liked by Ryan Peterman
Loved this post. I believe I'm about to start an infra role, so I'm stoked! (I love systems.)
P.S. You are my favorite content creator in tech. I love the brand, Developing Dev -- it's so elegant in so many ways -- and, the post content is valuable and clearly expressed as bonus.
That's great news, I work on an infra team too and have personally enjoyed it a lot
I appreciate your kind words, it means a lot to me :) If there's ever a software engineering career topic you're interested in learning more about, tell me and I'll consider it for a future post
Having a motivated nice fun team is pretty important. Not a big fan of having teammates that will constantly shout at each other and shut each other's ideas down. Having a motivated nice fun team can help with your growth as you can learn from each other and you're constantly learning with them.
Agreed! Quality peers that are collaborative is probably one of the most important factors in picking a job. Reminds me of this interesting Poll from Twitter - https://twitter.com/shreyas/status/1633625702670151680?s=20
It's also nice when you can hang out together right after work and have a drink or do some activities together. Building lifelong friends is important in life.
+1, it's been nice now that there's more in person social time these days
Zoom happy hours during covid weren't as good
The bad thing about in person social time is dealing with traffic.
Just thinking about driving back and forth across the bay bridge in SF for five days a week, with traffic, would dramatically increase people's stress by a lot.
Loved this post. I believe I'm about to start an infra role, so I'm stoked! (I love systems.)
P.S. You are my favorite content creator in tech. I love the brand, Developing Dev -- it's so elegant in so many ways -- and, the post content is valuable and clearly expressed as bonus.
That's great news, I work on an infra team too and have personally enjoyed it a lot
I appreciate your kind words, it means a lot to me :) If there's ever a software engineering career topic you're interested in learning more about, tell me and I'll consider it for a future post
Have a great weekend!