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lethain.com
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Tackling some common questions, including: what does an engineering career in a larger organisation look like? What actually is a staff engineer? How long should you stay at the same company? Do I even need to progress?
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Most career ladders define a single, uniform set of expectations for Staff engineers operating within the company. Everyone benefits from clear role expectations, but career ladders are a tool that applies better against populations than people. This is particularly true for Staff-plus engineers, whose career ladders often paper over several distinct roles hidden behind a single moniker. The more folks I spoke with about the role of Staff-plus engineers at their company, the better their experiences began to cluster into four distinct patterns. Most companies emphasized one or two of the patterns, and one pattern only existed in companies with many hundreds or thousands of engineers. A few companies didn't feature any technical leadership pattern and pushed ...
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Stories of folks reaching Staff Engineer roles.
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