advancing your career from senior to leadership w/ principal engineer, stephen shary
guest: stephen shary, principal software engineer at acv auctions
- use levels.fyi to compare technical career ladders across companies since titles like staff, principal, and fellow mean different things everywhere
- read the book staff engineer by will larson if youre a senior engineer wondering what comes next without going into management
- when moving into leadership roles aim to write reference implementations, the correct example others can copy, not just working code
- refresh your resume every january regardless of whether youre job searching so youre always ready to move
- as a leader get behind decisions once theyre made even if you disagreed, then fully learn why the choice was made