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From one of the articles on this website: "Often abruptly, you're now expected to align the pieces around you for your own success" I am curious to hear how p

• maddynator 5y ago
  So as a staff eng you will have projects that you are leading but have cross team/org dependencies. You have to get alignment with those teams and get projects on their roadmap/sprints so you can get unblocked. But a lot of engineers think they can just ask cross-functional teams fit with but get surprised when things don’t happen. And that’s because other team is busy and not idling. As a staff engineer you have to figure out how you can contribute to cross-team such that they agree to the problem, let you contribute to their code base, and help them unlock you. Its a lot of championing and relationships building that is expected at staff level. I hope that is useful
  • draw_down 5y ago
    Notice how none of this is engineering as such. Which is not to say this work is not useful, of course it is. But it’s political, coordinative, managerial in nature. This is, shall we say, not always a good fit for someone who is good at engineering.