You need to focus on a different set of skills besides just coding to level up in your tech career. Many engineers never realize this and spend years spinning their wheels trying to get promoted.
"Keep a list of daily accomplishments. Start your brag doc!"
I couldn't agree more with this. This is not only crucial for promotions but also performance reviews. Even when managers and leaders don't ask for them engineers should have them ready. Not only should a brag doc highlight what you've done but also how it has impacted the business in positive way.
yes! Keeping a brag doc and quantifying my wins in terms business and product folks could understand has been such a help to me to see my impact, as well as during promotions, interviewing, yearly reviews, teaching others, etc.
Not sure if I will be able to join the live event you organize in LinkedIn but, a question I would love to raise is: how to make your work visible in a way that is not perceived as "reporting"?
"[...] And these problems aren’t always just more technically complex – they even begin to affect more people, team members, clients, other teams, stakeholders, etc. [...]
Agreed, and this is the reason because I think a Tech Lead for a Platform Engineer team should be a senior software engineer
on your second note: I do know Middle Engineers that are doing a great job at running a team because they dedicated time to develop the right skills :)
"Keep a list of daily accomplishments. Start your brag doc!"
I couldn't agree more with this. This is not only crucial for promotions but also performance reviews. Even when managers and leaders don't ask for them engineers should have them ready. Not only should a brag doc highlight what you've done but also how it has impacted the business in positive way.
yes! Keeping a brag doc and quantifying my wins in terms business and product folks could understand has been such a help to me to see my impact, as well as during promotions, interviewing, yearly reviews, teaching others, etc.
Not sure if I will be able to join the live event you organize in LinkedIn but, a question I would love to raise is: how to make your work visible in a way that is not perceived as "reporting"?
Great issue by the way! Congratulations 🎉!
great question :)
will add it to the list of questions and you can watch the recording later :)
"[...] And these problems aren’t always just more technically complex – they even begin to affect more people, team members, clients, other teams, stakeholders, etc. [...]
Agreed, and this is the reason because I think a Tech Lead for a Platform Engineer team should be a senior software engineer
glad to hear you found this useful :)
on your second note: I do know Middle Engineers that are doing a great job at running a team because they dedicated time to develop the right skills :)
Those are good reasons indeed!