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Ask HN: What are some educational resources for more senior engineers?
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Re: Ask HN: What are some educational resources for more senior engineers?
#42Do you follow tech blogs of various companies? There’s some serious inside and hands-on knowledge available for free. You can also follow various open source code repositories, also compare commits. Check bug log. Listen to podcasts.
Re: Ask HN: What are some educational resources for more senior engineers?
#43My favourite resource is my blog (not for you dammit, get your own, my blog is teaching me) - I start out with a question - eg "How does Go decide where to put something on the heap" and then spend days or weeks trying to answer that, and writing a coherent explanation on my blog so that I can refer back to it when I want to refresh my memory.
I learn a hang of a lot from books, but having to research code/blogs/mailing lists and ask questions from people ends up being a LOT more educational, the write up is just as educational because I notice when I don't have a complete understanding, when I wave my hands or when it doesn't "fit" logically, which means I have some more research to do.
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#44In my book, if you want to go for architect/principal/staff, you will have to work on communication, documentation and leadership skills. At work, the group of most senior engineers has a couple of roles: - They need to collect the needs, challenges and plans of different teams across the company. Based on this, they have to use deep technical knowledge of the stack to distill this into a technical direction for the…
Documentation is a necessary skill at senior levels in large orgs. There will never be a shortage of interested parties eager to vampire away your cycles. Being able to send them docs, diagrams, etc. will save you so much oxygen.
Re: Ask HN: What are some educational resources for more senior engineers?
#45In my book, if you want to go for architect/principal/staff, you will have to work on communication, documentation and leadership skills. At work, the group of most senior engineers has a couple of roles: - They need to collect the needs, challenges and plans of different teams across the company. Based on this, they have to use deep technical knowledge of the stack to distill this into a technical direction for the…
imho, more senior engineers ought to be the trailblazers and support the teams that are building the products.
Yesterday I experienced getting chewed by very senior engineers who instead of trailblazing, seem to just sit and complain, and the actual trailblazing comes from the bottom up.
It was very disappointing and a large degree of trust was lost.
Re: Ask HN: What are some educational resources for more senior engineers?
#46If you don't want to, you don't want to, but that's on you. If you don't have the patience to sit through stuff you don't know in order to get to the stuff you do know, that's on you. If having someone tell you that EC2 is a VPS service sends you into a conniption fit because you already know that, then maybe it's time to retire. There are over 200 AWS services and you can't possibly know what every single one of the…
OP didn’t say “don’t want to” in the way that you think he did lol. He’s not interested in being an AWS solutions architect. He was just using that as a specific example of a personal development course that his company offers that’s more suitable for junior engineers.
OP is looking for 2 things:
1) some resource that matches his interests
2) some resource that’s more suitable for his experience level
What you got confused with and also what OP did not clarify is Number 1. Someone else picked up on this and commented that OP was too vague with his asks.
Re: Ask HN: What are some educational resources for more senior engineers?
#47Many staff level engineers love going through https://codecrafters.io (YC S22) when they want to master a language, dive deeper into the internals of devtools that they use, or when they’re simply looking for a complex project idea for the weekend. You can Build your own Git, Docker, Redis, etc from scratch.
Re: Ask HN: What are some educational resources for more senior engineers?
#48Many staff level engineers love going through https://codecrafters.io (YC S22) when they want to master a language, dive deeper into the internals of devtools that they use, or when they’re simply looking for a complex project idea for the weekend. You can Build your own Git, Docker, Redis, etc from scratch.
This is the coolest thing I have seen all day, thanks fren!
Re: Ask HN: What are some educational resources for more senior engineers?
#49Many staff level engineers love going through https://codecrafters.io (YC S22) when they want to master a language, dive deeper into the internals of devtools that they use, or when they’re simply looking for a complex project idea for the weekend. You can Build your own Git, Docker, Redis, etc from scratch.
This is the coolest thing I have seen all day, thanks fren!
:)
Re: Ask HN: What are some educational resources for more senior engineers?
#50Knowing 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.
Respectfully, I'm simply not paying just for some swe classes. It seems ridiculous to me nowadays and others share this sentiment I'm sure.