Engineer’s guide to career growth: Advice from my time at Stripe and Facebook
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Engineer’s guide to career growth: Advice from my time at Stripe and Facebook
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Re: Engineer’s guide to career growth: Advice from my time at Stripe and Facebook
#2After ten years of reading these articles and imagining what it would be like to reach that level, I now find myself there and asking "what next?". What is the path for a staff level IC maxed out on the payscale? Seeking principal is a political battle I have no interest in. And management simply isn't in my skillset. Am I stuck just slinging Javascript into retirement? Are there any other lateral moves that could provide more upside?
Re: Engineer’s guide to career growth: Advice from my time at Stripe and Facebook
#3The article does mention this but worth noting that riding two rocket ships back to back is not going to be a typical career experience for majority of people. So this doesn't strike me as a typical career growth story.
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#4After ten years of reading these articles and imagining what it would be like to reach that level, I now find myself there and asking "what next?". What is the path for a staff level IC maxed out on the payscale? Seeking principal is a political battle I have no interest in. And management simply isn't in my skillset. Am I stuck just slinging Javascript into retirement? Are there any other lateral moves that could pr…
Find a place where principal isn't awarded for winning a political battle. They exist. You sound like you might be happier there.
Re: Engineer’s guide to career growth: Advice from my time at Stripe and Facebook
#5The article does mention this but worth noting that riding two rocket ships back to back is not going to be a typical career experience for majority of people. So this doesn't strike me as a typical career growth story.
Agreed. Make sure you get on apollo 11 and not the challenger.
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#6After ten years of reading these articles and imagining what it would be like to reach that level, I now find myself there and asking "what next?". What is the path for a staff level IC maxed out on the payscale? Seeking principal is a political battle I have no interest in. And management simply isn't in my skillset. Am I stuck just slinging Javascript into retirement? Are there any other lateral moves that could pr…
What are you looking for in context of "Next" ? Better management position? Better technical challenges ? Better health ? better pay? All four ?
Re: Engineer’s guide to career growth: Advice from my time at Stripe and Facebook
#7After ten years of reading these articles and imagining what it would be like to reach that level, I now find myself there and asking "what next?". What is the path for a staff level IC maxed out on the payscale? Seeking principal is a political battle I have no interest in. And management simply isn't in my skillset. Am I stuck just slinging Javascript into retirement? Are there any other lateral moves that could pr…
Just curious: what are you looking for? I tend to assume that staff-level ICs have a pretty good setup as far as established expertise and freedom to choose what they work on (though that varies a lot). What tangible benefits other than higher pay are you looking for with that next step?
Not saying the financial benefits aren’t worth it by themselves. Asking because I always figured I’d probably top out where you’re at, and I’m wondering what the view is like there.
Re: Engineer’s guide to career growth: Advice from my time at Stripe and Facebook
#8After ten years of reading these articles and imagining what it would be like to reach that level, I now find myself there and asking "what next?". What is the path for a staff level IC maxed out on the payscale? Seeking principal is a political battle I have no interest in. And management simply isn't in my skillset. Am I stuck just slinging Javascript into retirement? Are there any other lateral moves that could pr…
Yeah if you reject 2 options out of hand and leave yourself with the option you like least it is going to seem like your options are limited.
Re: Engineer’s guide to career growth: Advice from my time at Stripe and Facebook
#9After ten years of reading these articles and imagining what it would be like to reach that level, I now find myself there and asking "what next?". What is the path for a staff level IC maxed out on the payscale? Seeking principal is a political battle I have no interest in. And management simply isn't in my skillset. Am I stuck just slinging Javascript into retirement? Are there any other lateral moves that could pr…
That's basically my plan, and to work on hobbies. Try not to get burned out by the next CRUD app startup I work for, learn some language that interests me, and live my life. It's nice, as a contractor, being able to take off a week randomly and not really feel hit by the lost income because I've refocused my life to downsizing expenses and upsizing enjoyment. Keep up with enough stack-mania to keep an income until I can call it quits for good.
Re: Engineer’s guide to career growth: Advice from my time at Stripe and Facebook
#10After ten years of reading these articles and imagining what it would be like to reach that level, I now find myself there and asking "what next?". What is the path for a staff level IC maxed out on the payscale? Seeking principal is a political battle I have no interest in. And management simply isn't in my skillset. Am I stuck just slinging Javascript into retirement? Are there any other lateral moves that could pr…
This is where we as an industry need to embrace unions and let folks like you mentor and train younger developers.