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Join a startup and move into engineering management asap. If you can hit director level, they stop asking leetcode questions. But if the goal is to eventually
by itake 4y ago
Join a startup and move into engineering management asap.
If you can hit director level, they stop asking leetcode questions. But if the goal is to eventually get into a Big Tech company, they may down level a startup director to be a line manager (which may still require leetcode).
- mikymoothrowa 4y agoAll these people I have in mind are fresh out of college, self taught probably and aren’t old enough to be EM
- itake 4y agoThis would be a 5-8 year plan. Communicating with your manager early that this is a career goal will help set them up for success in that path.
- anyfoo 4y agoDepends entirely on the startup I guess? And, I mean, I could found a company right now and call myself "CEO" and my friend from school who's a brilliant actor with no computer skills "director of IT", that does not say much.
- itake 4y agoExperience depends on how many humans are under you. If you're a CEO with 0 full time directs, you would have a difficult time moving into an EM role.
- anyfoo 4y agoThat’s my point, except stronger, because number of people under you is not sufficient. If you’ve never written a line of assembly, you will have problems managing a compiler backend team for example.
- tlextrait 4y agoPlease let me know what startup that is so I avoid it at all costs.