Ask HN: What are some educational resources for more senior engineers?

nice $2,000 course plug

wish it wasn't looking so ... abandoned :|

Knowing the course material covered in https://bradfieldcs.com (most of which comes from the book https://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/) will make you a better engineer.

As a fan of deliberate practice, it helps to first understand where you have room for improvement as a senior engineer. Your feedback reviews at past jobs can be a great place to start.

If you have non technical areas of improvement, you can check out resources like those below to absorb the info and then ofc implement those learnings in practice:

1. Books (eg. Effective engineer, radical candor, Manager's path)

2. Conferences (eg. ELC, LeadDev)

3. Podcasts (most conferences above have podcasts)

4. Coach / mentor

5. Blogs (staffeng, pragmaticengineer, charity.wtf)

On the technical side, it depends on the expertise you'd like to build but here are some general examples:

1. Books (eg those specific to your domain, designing data intensive applications, clean code, language specific books to learn idioms)

2. PR reviews from experienced engineers

3. Blogs (technical blogs of companies you admire)

4. Tech talks (from companies you admire, YouTube has plenty)

5. Courses specific to your domain like algorithms or deep learning)

6. Company conferences (again depending on your domain)

As a request, this is extremely underspecified :) Job titles in our industry are notoriously vague, so it'd help to hear what you consider "more senior engineer" (I've seen definitions range from "more than 2 years experience" to "deep subject matter expert with decades of knowledge"), and what you envision your staff/principal/architect role to be like.

Without that, all the useful advice you get will be extremely vague. You'll likely hear about communication, leadership, and influencing as the core skills. They are - at that level, people will be a large part of any problem you solve. And of course, learn to learn efficiently, because any of those roles live in a constantly shifting knowledge landscape. But that's about as concrete as it gets without further details.

What attracts you about those roles? Do you want a portfolio career, a deep subject matter expert career, a people leadership career, something process oriented, an organizational troubleshooter,...?

There's a million different ways to tackle those roles, and you'll only have success if you pick a way that's tailored to your strengths. It's impossible to learn "all the skills" - part of this path is getting clarity on which ones matter to you, and which ones you're just fine ignoring.