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Why I Ignore The Spotlight as a Staff Engineer - Lalit Maganti

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An alternate path for Staff+ engineers that optimizes for systems over spotlights and stewardship over fungibility.

Discussed on Hacker News , lobste.rs and r/programming. Lately I’ve been reading Sean Goedecke’s essays on being a Staff+ engineer. His work (particularly Software engineering under the spotlight and It's Not Your Codebase ) is razor-sharp and feels painfully familiar to anyone in Big Tech. On paper, I fit the mold he describes: I'm a Senior Staff engineer at Google. Yet, reading his work left me with a lingering sense of unease. At first, I dismissed this as cynicism. After reflecting, however, I realized the problem wasn’t Sean’s writing but my reading. Sean isn't being bleak; he is accurate

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