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Everyone in this comment thread seems to have a different definition of staff engineer. And that is kind of the problem with this term. It's almost devoid of an
by nvarsj 3y ago
Everyone in this comment thread seems to have a different definition of staff engineer. And that is kind of the problem with this term. It's almost devoid of any meaning now, like the ubiquitous VP title at a bank.
This book should probably be titled "Being a staff engineer at big tech - how to navigate the performance process to get promoted as an IC". From my brief skim, that seems to be what it's about.
- kmilinho 3y agoI've been reading the book and I agree with you regarding the book being very specific to a type of company culture. I still find some of its ideas useful, not because I didn't think about them before, but sometimes it helps to organize your thoughts when someone else is talking about them out loud. Not a life changing book but useful still.
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