Marius Schulz grew to a Senior Staff Engineer (IC7) at Instagram by redefining expectations three times (once for each promotion). We talked through each promotion and how he did it. There were also interesting learnings from when his promotion got blocked once even though he greatly exceeded expectations.
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โข Transcript: https://www.developing.dev/p/instagram-senior-staff-eng-ic7-on
โข YouTube: https://youtu.be/OXJHfb_lZII
โข Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-peterman-pod/id1777363835
๐ง๐ถ๐บ๐ฒ๐๐๐ฎ๐บ๐ฝ๐:
00:00 - Intro
00:55 - Choosing his specialty
02:29 - Greatly exceeding expectations with no promo
08:04 - Senior promo
15:30 - Staff promo
24:43 - Leverage and IC4/5/6 way of solving problems
29:51 - Senior staff promo
44:29 - Career planning past IC7
47:32 - Did IC7+ expectations scare him
49:49 - Advice for his younger self
52:29 - Outro
๐ช๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐๐ผ ๐ณ๐ถ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐:
โข LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariusschulz/
โข X/Twitter: https://x.com/mariusschulz/
โข Threads: https://www.threads.com/@marius.schulz
โข Personal Website: https://mariusschulz.com/
๐ช๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐๐ผ ๐ณ๐ถ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฅ๐๐ฎ๐ป:
โข Newsletter: https://www.developing.dev/
โข X/Twitter: https://x.com/ryanlpeterman
โข LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanlpeterman/
โข Threads: https://www.threads.com/@ryanlpeterman
โข Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ryanlpeterman
โข TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ryanlpeterman
