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> I'm curious what you think a Senior+ role should entail in your ideal world. I'm not sure how you can get away from impact, since otherwise I'd perceive that
by pm90 5y ago
> I'm curious what you think a Senior+ role should entail in your ideal world. I'm not sure how you can get away from impact, since otherwise I'd perceive that as authority without responsibility.
The technical expertise Ive gained over the years makes me pretty confident of executing on building complex systems that a younger me probably couldn’t have done. So it feels like a waste to me that Im not leveraging that experience to make more things but instead writing proposals and debating them with other senior engineers.
- Jensson 5y agoWhat I did was just build a lot of prototypes and then show those prototypes. It is very hard for people to say that something wont work when you have can show it working right there in the presentation. You can put that prototyping work under "making presentations and documents in preparation for design discussions", because that is exactly why you prototype. Discussions gets much easier when you are well prepared, so when someone asks about performance you can show them benchmarks, if someone asks about alternatives you can show the difference in benchmarks and code complexity etc. A few hours coding can save weeks of meetings discussing these things.