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Ep. 220: The Two Types of Ambition
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
What Does a Software Engineer Do?
At a certain level in the individual contributor, like a real ladder, as we call it, you kind of like fork into different archetypes. So there is the software engineer archetype and this is the person that like writes really good code. There is a domain expert archetype. This is the person who has like, you know, three P is these in complex optimization or, youknow, machine learning or whatever. And then there is the archetype that I think I better fit into, which is kind of like high level tech lead - end-to-end integration effort.
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