Writing on Promotion
Articles on Promotion from Tauseef Fayyaz: practical writing on engineering, AI and tech careers, drawn from leading a team and mentoring engineers.
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Twelve Moves That Take You From Mid Level to Senior
Getting to mid level is mostly time and repetition, and then the path stops being clear. The thing that got you here, doing assigned work well, is not what the next level rewards, and nobody says so directly, so capable engineers respond by doing more of what already worked. Twelve heuristics for the part that is not obvious.
What Actually Changes in Your First Two Years as an Engineer
Interviews test the small part of the job that is easy to test, and the rest is learned on site. Reading code as the main skill, how to ask a question that costs nothing, why small shipped changes beat large ones in progress, using code review as the fastest teaching you will get, and the four things that actually get people promoted, three of which are not about writing code.
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