Best skills to increase TC

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Jul 24, 2018 14 Comments

SDE/SWE path. Best skills?

Aws? Azure? React? Leetcode? What backend language?

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  • Microsoft / Eng
    krya

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    krya
    Leetcode
    Jul 24, 2018 1
  • Apple
    Iwkq80

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    Iwkq80
    Negotiation and business acumen skills.
    Jul 24, 2018 3
    • Apple
      Iwkq80

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      Iwkq80
      Mostly experience but you can accelerate it by other means as well such as: getting a more experienced mentor, keeping an eye out and being cognizant of the business (how does x feature impact the business? What value does it bring? Return on investment?), including yourself in “boring” leadership/status type meetings to understand what going on in your org, setting up skip 1:1s and simply ask question like, “what are the top risks to our org” or “top commitments we are aiming for”, etc. there are other ways too... but idea is understanding the business, why you do things, and just being aware of your environment.

      Heads down focusing on libraries, frameworks and technical design concepts are great. But will help you as a technical lead / IC, but it’s not the exponential factor that will grow your TC (unless someone is explicitly looking out for you).
      Jul 24, 2018
    • Dell
      lance_klus

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      lance_klus
      Thank you for the elaborate raspiness.

      This makes sense
      Jul 24, 2018
  • New
    Pichakaran

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    Pichakaran
    Gand Chatna.
    Jul 24, 2018 1
  • Google / Eng
    VIPGoogler

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    VIPGoogler
    Communication skills. Why targeting to be an IC when you can be a manager/director?
    Jul 24, 2018 1
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