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How I Find Problems to Solve as a Staff Engineer - Lalit Maganti

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How listening broadly turns everyday problems into useful project ideas.

Note: this post was revised after publishing for increased clarity, based on reader feedback. “How do you find problems worth working on?” a senior engineer I mentor asked me recently. He’s trying to make the jump to staff engineer and realized that the role isn’t just about doing the work he’s assigned. He also needs to get involved in figuring out what his team and org should be building. Someone else had suggested blocking out time in his calendar to think about the bigger picture. He’d tried that, but hadn’t found it productive, so he asked if I had any alternatives. I told him I…

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