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Yup. The people on my team who are the most respected and influential, getting steady promotions and good reviews, hardly crush tickets. If you look at sprint

Yup. The people on my team who are the most respected and influential, getting steady promotions and good reviews, hardly crush tickets. If you look at sprint histories, and went purely off of tickets, you might think they did nothing at all! And maybe they don’t! But, they’ve shipped a few key projects and features that totally improved our product so much that now everyone has less work to do because everything just works so well most of the time. I think of these guys as the big guns, we just keep them around on payroll in case we have something really difficult to do.

scarface_74 2y ago
I have been working at my current company for six months and haven’t wrote a line of code even though my title is “staff software engineer”. I have worked with sales and the customer to close two major deals… I don’t see myself doing any real coding at least for the next six months.
- codingdave 2y ago
  Sounds like you got yourself promoted right up into a sales role. I mean, if you like that and are happy with it, I'm happy for you. But some people enjoy coding, so I'm not sure your success story is as strong of an anecdote as you might think.
  - scarface_74 2y ago
    Calling me sales? You don’t have to be mean (kidding, I appreciate sales more than most developers). It’s half and half. I come in right after sales gets the customer and work with the customer to do an assessment (https://www.linkedin.com/advice/3/how-do-you-conduct-consulting-needs-assessment-consulting-advice https://www.linkedin.com/advice/3/how-do-you-conduct-consult...). They pay for this and either they can take it back and do the work themselves or pay us to do the work. If they want us to do the work, I work with sales again to come up with hours and resourcing and the customer signs another contract and then I become a technical lead over the actual implementation. But even if you look at how most tech companies work - I worked in AWS Professional Services for three years as a hands on keyboard mid level consultant (full time direct hire) - if you spend too much time doing hands on keyboard coding, you are working “below your level” this was true for SDEs too. It’s impossible for 95% of developers to even be 2x that of an average developer doing hands on keyboard work and you definitely don’t get promoted at any tech company because you code well. You have to be able to lead initiatives and work with “the business”

scarface_74 2y ago

I have been working at my current company for six months and haven’t wrote a line of code even though my title is “staff software engineer”. I have worked with sales and the customer to close two major deals… I don’t see myself doing any real coding at least for the next six months.

codingdave 2y ago
Sounds like you got yourself promoted right up into a sales role. I mean, if you like that and are happy with it, I'm happy for you. But some people enjoy coding, so I'm not sure your success story is as strong of an anecdote as you might think.
- scarface_74 2y ago
  Calling me sales? You don’t have to be mean (kidding, I appreciate sales more than most developers). It’s half and half. I come in right after sales gets the customer and work with the customer to do an assessment (https://www.linkedin.com/advice/3/how-do-you-conduct-consulting-needs-assessment-consulting-advice https://www.linkedin.com/advice/3/how-do-you-conduct-consult...). They pay for this and either they can take it back and do the work themselves or pay us to do the work. If they want us to do the work, I work with sales again to come up with hours and resourcing and the customer signs another contract and then I become a technical lead over the actual implementation. But even if you look at how most tech companies work - I worked in AWS Professional Services for three years as a hands on keyboard mid level consultant (full time direct hire) - if you spend too much time doing hands on keyboard coding, you are working “below your level” this was true for SDEs too. It’s impossible for 95% of developers to even be 2x that of an average developer doing hands on keyboard work and you definitely don’t get promoted at any tech company because you code well. You have to be able to lead initiatives and work with “the business”