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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ā¢ Transcript: https://www.developing.dev/p/instagram-senior-staff-eng-ic7-on
ā¢ YouTube: https://youtu.be/OXJHfb_lZII
ā¢ Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-peterman-pod/id1777363835
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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
šŖšµš²šæš² šš¼ š³š¶š»š± š š®šæš¶šš:
ā¢ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariusschulz/
ā¢ X/Twitter: https://x.com/mariusschulz/
ā¢ Threads: https://www.threads.com/@marius.schulz
ā¢ Personal Website: https://mariusschulz.com/
šŖšµš²šæš² šš¼ š³š¶š»š± š„šš®š»:
ā¢ Newsletter: https://www.developing.dev/
ā¢ X/Twitter: https://x.com/ryanlpeterman
ā¢ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanlpeterman/
ā¢ Threads: https://www.threads.com/@ryanlpeterman
ā¢ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ryanlpeterman
ā¢ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ryanlpeterman
