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Experienced engineers/successful tech leaders, what knowledge or concepts have you found to be most important in advancing your career? I'm talking in terms of acquirable or learnable skills and knowledge, and not inherent traits like leadership, ability to get along with people, etc
Obviously leetcode. Btw also tc or gtfo.
Don’t take a job that involves mostly maintaining legacy tech with a ton of roadblocks and personalities that prevent you from shipping code or getting things done. To the point that you worry if you’re so outdated that other companies don’t want you but too trapped in complacency to try to change anything. Yea, not speaking from example or anything.
Knowing more than how to code. It's somewhat related to being a full stack engineer. This covers topics like systems (e.g. Debugging a misbehaving host), networking, resiliency (code and arch), scaling (cs foundations), data analysis, security, databases, etc. Skills that take time: Being able to dive into unfamiliar code/arch and figure things out quickly. Moving from micro to macro level comfortably. Think going from a code block to arch across many systems. Understanding how systems interact and how they might impact each other. Asking yourself "are we solving the right issue?" And being able to push back (with data!) showing why.
I agree with most of the points. I believe when you master these along with communication skills, it easily puts you in a position to lead teams and departments
Spot on
Management should be your ultimate goal
Why?
Natural next step in career once you have proven your engineering skills
ass kiss your boss and throw your peers under the bus
The first one is easy. The second one is harder.
Seems to work well for some people
Soft skills aren’t inherent. They’re very much learnable and a huge lever in your career advancement. This might come as a huge shock but the ability to get along with people (aka not be a dick or weirdo) can get you far. “Oh but I’m an aspie introvert and I don’t want to be a leader” Well then shut up and keep your head down and be happy advancing slowly.
Politics and soft skills
Read “the mythical man month” And “personal mba”
The Mythical man month was published in the 70s. Still relevant? Really?
Very relevant.