A fantastic follow-up building on the Gervais Principle Essay with pragmatic actionable advice for any Engineer that I wish I had internalised at the start of my career. His three points as a tl;dr takeaway are sticky-note worthy:
1. Beware of savvy product managers (and others) exploiting illegible channels to chisel work out of naive engineers
2. Competent engineers should work on “side bets” that are outside the normal planning process
3. Getting promoted to Staff and above has very little to do with the formal job ladder
1. Beware of savvy product managers (and others) exploiting illegible channels to chisel work out of naive engineers
2. Competent engineers should work on “side bets” that are outside the normal planning process
3. Getting promoted to Staff and above has very little to do with the formal job ladder