7 tips for Senior Engineers
summary
A career checklist with concrete payoffs and missteps: starts in a data centre doing code ops and even painting walls, lands a Google role after seven interviews and moves countries, gets a “need improvements” perf review, learns to give actionable feedback, earns promotion from level 1 to 3 then avoids management by switching teams, burns out in consulting with Ikea and blows up in an email so turn off your laptop when furious, embraces delegation, writing practice, and the Dunning–Kruger learning curve.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:27What senior engineer means
- 3:14Early career choices
- 6:21Working in startups
- 8:09Joining Google
- 11:03Giving feedback
- 13:53Team dynamics
- 15:17Promotion frameworks
- 17:42Non-managerial paths
- 19:49Individual contributor vs management track
- 20:54Consulting challenges
- 23:04Avoiding burnout
- 24:46Learning strategies
- 26:52Learning curve
- 29:20Writing skills
- 30:22Embracing humility
- 31:26Experience over knowledge
- 32:28Learning to delegate
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