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Ludwig - On becoming competitive when joining a new company

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This is sort of a written-down blueprint of how I become competitive when joining a job. Being competitive, to me, means: I want people to think of me in the top 5 if there was to be a tier-list of engineers and if possible, ASAP. This is not really advice you should especially follow: everyone’s different and context matters, but there might be some approaches in there that are valuable to pick up. Some of that advice is also probably not super applicable to people starting out: you will know that for yourself better than I. I’ve started a new job quite a few times over the last 15 years and almost every single time, I felt criminally under-skilled for the position. Still, every single time and within a few months I would end up being the person to ask on any codebase or design questions, to lead a new project or to assemble a new team and start on a R&D project (which usually entails already having acquired a lot of trust!). The truth is that the reason this happened so consistently

May 25, 2024 · 8 Min Read On becoming competitive when joining a new company Context This is sort of a written-down blueprint of how I become competitive when joining a job. Being competitive, to me, means: being able to work on most of the issues I want in the company in some fashion having accumulated a certain stature and respect from both the engineering and business side which I can trade for space and agency being in a place where I can break company soft/hard rules to get things done. I want people to think of me in the top 5 if there was to be a tier-list of engineers and if possible,

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