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> If you're good at higher level competencies but don't have much experience, too bad, you're a dumb junior. Yeah, and hopefully not even a junior (e.g., not h
by pc86 5y ago
> If you're good at higher level competencies but don't have much experience, too bad, you're a dumb junior.
Yeah, and hopefully not even a junior (e.g., not hired at all).
I don't mean to be overly glib, but I don't really have much interest in working with a software engineer who is "awesome at finding the right problems to solve" but can't actually do any of the work to solve them. Most of the staff and principal folks I have worked with in the past are great developers, if maybe a bit rusty sometimes depending on the exact role/company. It's an important skillset to have and if all you can do is lay out high-level technical designs, you're at best 25-30% of the way toward one job.
- ZephyrBlu 5y agoWhy are you assuming such extremes? It's not about having 0% competency in execution, 100% competency in planning. More like you might be average at executing and excellent at alignment. Ex: 10-30-50 like described here for PMs but for engineers instead: https://twitter.com/shreyas/status/1055725977769136128 https://twitter.com/shreyas/status/1055725977769136128 It's silly to assume that all engineers will have similar levels of competency in all areas, but that is how career ladders are structured. More on it in this article: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20201227 https://apenwarr.ca/log/20201227.