This article is a worthwhile read and I can’t recommend it enough to anyone who wants to hit senior/staff/principal engineer or above. Technical skills are not

This article is a worthwhile read and I can’t recommend it enough to anyone who wants to hit senior/staff/principal engineer or above. Technical skills are not enough. You’re not hired to write software; you’re hired to write software that solves problems. Once you realize this; you’ll develop skills that complement your technical skills and amplify your effectiveness and value. Expecting to be given a requirements doc or spec and then delivering an interesting solution is rare. Building exceptional solutions requires you to intimately understand the problem space and how your software’s users will think, and solving the problems that they might not have even known about. Anyway read the fine article.