The Staff Engineer's Path – Book Review
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The Staff Engineer's Path – Book Review
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Re: The Staff Engineer's Path – Book Review
#2I'm a Staff Engineer, but I hardly do anything that this book describes. Maybe it's my company, but we have so many Staff Engineers that if we all were to do this stuff, nobody would have time to do the actual work and there would be too many people trying to lead.
Perhaps the levels are diluted and my title doesn't match my actual role at my company, but it feels like this is an industry-wide phenomenon.
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#3I'm a Staff Engineer, but I hardly do anything that this book describes. Maybe it's my company, but we have so many Staff Engineers that if we all were to do this stuff, nobody would have time to do the actual work and there would be too many people trying to lead. Perhaps the levels are diluted and my title doesn't match my actual role at my company, but it feels like this is an industry-wide phenomenon.
Staff engineer is the new senior engineer.
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#5I'm a Staff Engineer, but I hardly do anything that this book describes. Maybe it's my company, but we have so many Staff Engineers that if we all were to do this stuff, nobody would have time to do the actual work and there would be too many people trying to lead. Perhaps the levels are diluted and my title doesn't match my actual role at my company, but it feels like this is an industry-wide phenomenon.
It might depend on the organization of course but I hear what you mean here. It does seem somewhat of a phenomenon..
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#6I'm a Staff Engineer, but I hardly do anything that this book describes. Maybe it's my company, but we have so many Staff Engineers that if we all were to do this stuff, nobody would have time to do the actual work and there would be too many people trying to lead. Perhaps the levels are diluted and my title doesn't match my actual role at my company, but it feels like this is an industry-wide phenomenon.
Staff engineer is the new senior engineer.
I disagree but only because I thought this way and it hurt my performance.
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#7> Put non-meetings on the calendar
I'd love to do that. But once you throw in real meetings, no meetings days, PTOs, time zones it becomes difficult to schedule a work meeting because now there's no overlapping block of time when you need to meet. Now all meetings get pushed out even more and the calendar time required for certain tasks increases.
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#8This is all thats required of staff engineers? Heck, at the big consulting firms, senior associate engineers had to do all this to get promoted to manager.
[context: senior associates were 1 step from the bottom rung]
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#9I'm a Staff Engineer, but I hardly do anything that this book describes. Maybe it's my company, but we have so many Staff Engineers that if we all were to do this stuff, nobody would have time to do the actual work and there would be too many people trying to lead. Perhaps the levels are diluted and my title doesn't match my actual role at my company, but it feels like this is an industry-wide phenomenon.
Staff engineer is the new senior engineer.
Unpopular opinion: With quickly growing organizations and therefore more inexperienced people managers, promoting someone to staff engineer is an easy way out of responsibility.
How often have I heard "you’re at a point in your career now where a people manager will only hinder you" to justify not being capable of supporting me.
Re: The Staff Engineer's Path – Book Review
#10> Put non-meetings on the calendar I'd love to do that. But once you throw in real meetings, no meetings days, PTOs, time zones it becomes difficult to schedule a work meeting because now there's no overlapping block of time when you need to meet. Now all meetings get pushed out even more and the calendar time required for certain tasks increases.
Allow read access to your calendar for teammates and instruct them to override your "Thinking time" slots in situations where the matter is urgent.