I've read over the years about the promotion process at Google and the higher expectations between levels. I also understand that it's more senior-level that it takes more than just raw technical talent but instead has some other soft components. I think I might have an idea what they are but they're pretty abstract. I have had terrible terrible mentorship in my career and at Splunk all I really do is fix bugs and I keep trying to fix that and do more but it never seems to go anywhere. So what non Tech things are very senior tech leads expected to do? How does one get a head? What are the expectations? Could you give me more concrete examples?
Take the opportunity to think more deeply about why the defect exists. What could have been done different from a development, design, deployment and process perspective? It is this broadly proactive posture and view of the big picture that makes for good leads and leaders.
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Check out http://levels.fyi, a lot of the time it’s a good amount of experience coupled with leadership, proactiveness
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If you have just fixed bugs then you probably don’t know enough. You only learn good development when you design and develop a large product from scratch. My suggestion is that you try and get into management ASAP.