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Yes, and … If you want career growth, consider these three simple* tricks: 1. Grok CircleCI’s engineering competency matrix, be honest with yourself, and work

Yes, and … If you want career growth, consider these three simple* tricks: 1. Grok CircleCI’s engineering competency matrix, be honest with yourself, and work on your technical “level ups” across the board. These alone will generally not get you promoted without step 2. https://circleci.com/blog/why-we-re-designed-our-engineering-career-paths-at-circleci/ https://circleci.com/blog/why-we-re-designed-our-engineering... 2. Buy the book “The Leadership Pipeline”, again be honest with yourself, and work on your management toolbelt progression. Level up within your company inside two years (an internal transfer can make this step easier). https://smile.amazon.com/Leadership-Pipeline-Build-Powered-Company/dp/0470894563 https://smile.amazon.com/Leadership-Pipeline-Build-Powered-C... 3. After leveling up, and within the two years, accept a role for 20% to 40% higher comp at a new company, or the next leadership level up, or both. (Preferably both.) Repeat. - - - - - - - - - Footnotes: * Simple doesn’t mean without deliberate attention or work. ** Keep LinkedIn updated with every title or responsibility growth (new role same employer), as well adding to the key valuable outcome you delivered in that role’s bullets, so (a) it’s apparent to recruiters and employers that you are seen as promotable, (b) you are not updating it only when looking for a job. *** The Leadership Pipeline book implies it’s for a company. On the contrary, use the framework to work on yourself.

rpandey1234 4y ago
good strategy :) And having a strong community really helps with "be honest with yourself"
- Terretta 4y ago
  Not without intervention on what the community considers strong. See another book, “The Mom Test”. Usually self-advertised “strong communities” are focused on being supportive or inclusive over honest, aka trying to be too nice to plainly tell you your shortcomings that need work. This is strongly related to why so many people are shocked, shocked, to get let go after a string of positive performance reviews. Most companies gave up on honest reviews long ago, all reviews are glowing, so even terrible performance gets “good reviews”. But managers still may have to let go the bottom 10 or 20 and they know who they are when their arms are twisted. Great coaches tell world class athletes what they can work to correct, just as great teams do in great retros, so the whole team levels up together.
turtleyacht 4y ago
CircleCI's competency matrix in the blog post leads to Google Docs (with ouid removed): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/131XZCEb8LoXqy79WWrhCX4sBnGhCM1nAIz4feFZJsEo/ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/131XZCEb8LoXqy79WWrhC... Here's a Scribd link to a (public) version of the competency matrix. Unsure when it was uploaded: https://www.scribd.com/document/503555180/CircleCI-Engineering-Competency-Matrix-public-version https://www.scribd.com/document/503555180/CircleCI-Engineeri...

rpandey1234 4y ago

good strategy :) And having a strong community really helps with "be honest with yourself"

Terretta 4y ago
Not without intervention on what the community considers strong. See another book, “The Mom Test”. Usually self-advertised “strong communities” are focused on being supportive or inclusive over honest, aka trying to be too nice to plainly tell you your shortcomings that need work. This is strongly related to why so many people are shocked, shocked, to get let go after a string of positive performance reviews. Most companies gave up on honest reviews long ago, all reviews are glowing, so even terrible performance gets “good reviews”. But managers still may have to let go the bottom 10 or 20 and they know who they are when their arms are twisted. Great coaches tell world class athletes what they can work to correct, just as great teams do in great retros, so the whole team levels up together.

turtleyacht 4y ago

CircleCI's competency matrix in the blog post leads to Google Docs (with ouid removed): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/131XZCEb8LoXqy79WWrhCX4sBnGhCM1nAIz4feFZJsEo/ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/131XZCEb8LoXqy79WWrhC... Here's a Scribd link to a (public) version of the competency matrix. Unsure when it was uploaded: https://www.scribd.com/document/503555180/CircleCI-Engineering-Competency-Matrix-public-version https://www.scribd.com/document/503555180/CircleCI-Engineeri...