Posts tagged with Career
The Intersection of Capability and Opportunity
If you take even a cursory glance at some of the blog posts that I've written here over the years, it's not a surprise that I've thought a fair amount about career ladders, particularly…
Where Engineers End Up
Often, I end up relating my own experiences in industry to other software engineers and managers to help them in their careers. At times, it's someone on the same team at work, one of my direct or skip-level…
Career Advancement in Large Teams
I had a chance to chat with someone who recently joined one of the major tech companies[1] as an engineering manager. Upon settling into their team, they were disappointed to learn that the actual work environment, plus the work…
Midlife Work Crisis
A while back, I came across this interesting take on professional careers, and an observation on how they generally fall into 3 stages: Three crucial skills that leaders must develop to become executives To summarize, the idea is that for…
The Management High Road
Oooof. Tech Twitter lit up last week on the drama surrounding Basecamp and their announcement of new company policies, centering around a ban on societal and political discussions on official company forums. For those unfamiliar, Basecamp—the company—makes the…
Balancing Ambition
I saw this post a while back, from an ambitious engineer reflecting on their career thus far and the allocation of time spent in advancing that career versus opting for the comfortable and familiar: How to waste your career, one…
