How I got promoted to staff engineer twice
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How I got promoted to staff engineer twice
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Re: How I got promoted to staff engineer twice
#2My own experience has taught me that titles are kinda dumb, and at times very very insular, which seems to be the case here.
I went from eng, to sr eng, to principal eng, back to eng, making more money each time along the way across different orgs.
Our industry has little to no real standards. Congrats on your promotion, but your title ultimately means little across companies.
Re: How I got promoted to staff engineer twice
#3Tl;dr you have to be grifter-grinder and disregard all the “important” bullshit of mentoring, interviewing, training as only shipping will give you a slight chance of promotion.
Re: How I got promoted to staff engineer twice
#4What is the difference between a senior engineer and a staff engineer?
Re: How I got promoted to staff engineer twice
#5What is the difference between a senior engineer and a staff engineer?
The staff title unlocks a new level of self-aggrandizement which is on display here and in certain published books.
As for professional qualities, I don’t think there is one. It takes a staff engineer at FAANG to do what a senior can do at a smaller company, because of all the other self—important people not listening to you. (Dealing with that is a skill though, so having that skill might be it.)
Re: How I got promoted to staff engineer twice
#6What is the difference between a senior engineer and a staff engineer?
I guess a senior engineer might be "linked" to a single kind of tasks (backend, frontend etc) while a staff engineer has knowledge in a lot of domains and can be the "bridge" for projects that need people from many different teams
Re: How I got promoted to staff engineer twice
#7I also was staff and senior staff when I held a salary position. To me these are basically bullshit titles created because companies have to keep on promoting people.
Re: How I got promoted to staff engineer twice
#8What is the difference between a senior engineer and a staff engineer?
The size of the company handing out the titles.
Re: How I got promoted to staff engineer twice
#9Tl;dr you have to be grifter-grinder and disregard all the “important” bullshit of mentoring, interviewing, training as only shipping will give you a slight chance of promotion. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42319997
That’s definitely not true, you can do both.
Re: How I got promoted to staff engineer twice
#10What is the difference between a senior engineer and a staff engineer?
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