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Q: As a software engineer, is it better to be a specialist or a generalist? This is one of the questions I get asked the most. I remember I had the same one when I first started working. I wanted to make sure I was going in the right direction but h...
Career growth past the staff level can often seem out of reach. We know that to succeed we need both ability and opportunity. But when it comes to advancing past a certain point, access to the right opportunities becomes the limiting factor. To bette...
Compensation varies depending on the stage of the company you choose to work for. You can think of your compensation package as an investment. Let’s compare the expected value, variance, and liquidity of this investment in a big tech company versus a...
"Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." — Abraham Lincoln It’s easy to get caught up in the urgency of your main project work and neglect tooling and automation. Setting aside some time to optimiz...
There are plenty of resources out there that cover the traits of a good engineering manager (EM) like Project Oxygen from Google. Now that I've had 7 managers, here are a few more points I'd add from what I saw work well. Putting the “E” in EM Acros...
During my grad year, I failed to secure offers from all the companies I interviewed with, except one. My resume landed interviews, but I didn’t perform well during the process. A year later, I received offers at nearly every company I interviewed at ...