Mid-level to senior engineer

Stage 1 · Lesson 7 of 8

Monthly progress check-ins

Seniority as scope, with a clear bar

only help if you look at them again. Set aside a short, regular slot for , such as 15 minutes in one a month. In it, you review your evidence against each expectation and decide what to work on next.

Bring a line or two per expectation: what you did, what changed and what is still missing. This shows your manager your progress long before . It also gives them time to find you the right work.

Common traptreating the promotion conversation as a once-a-year event. That is when you discover that the project you counted on did not show what you thought it would.

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