
Edpisode 515: Swizec Teller on Becoming a Senior Engineer
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Adding Engineers to Late Projects Makes the Project Even Later
In one of your block posts, you have said a seneior engineer works as a force multiplier. Can you expand on this? Yes. Force multipliers are the kind of people that you put on a team and they make everyone around them work better,. perform at a higher level. They make the whole team just better at delivering projects, at delivering work. What often happens with senior engineer is that the kind of problems you're solving start outgrowing the amount of work you can do yourself. A single engineer is never going to be able to deliver a softwerd project - like an operating system or a modern web ap.
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