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Becoming a Staff Plus Engineer with Joy Ebertz
Feb 16, 2024
Joy Ebertz, a principal engineer at Split, discusses growing into a staff-plus role, transitioning from management to a technical role, aligning incentives, and strategies for career growth in engineering.
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- To become a principal engineer, one needs to continuously improve coding skills, work independently, design within their space, and think across teams.
- Transitioning from people management back to a technical role provides insights into understanding politics, promotions, influential people within an organization, and infrastructure, and emphasizes the importance of asking specific questions for meaningful feedback and better support from your manager.
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Career progression and becoming a principal engineer
To become a principal engineer, one needs to continuously improve coding skills, work independently, design within their space, and think across teams. As one advances, the role becomes more ambiguous, requiring the ability to tackle problems with little information and adapt to changing needs. Soft skills and influencing others become crucial as well. It is important to know what skills the business and the team lack, understand the larger goals, and actively contribute towards them.
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