Staff+: Career Progression Without Management

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Staff+: Career Progression Without Management 👋🛤🧐🙄📚 @MikeMcQuaid

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me 👋

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Principal Engineer in Communities (GitHub Engineer 2013 – Present)

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Project Leader on Homebrew (Homebrew Maintainer 2009 – Present)

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2003-7 2007-8 2008-9 2009-12 2012-13 2013-Present (2009-Present) 👨🎓 CS + MS BSc, UoE 📞 BT 🔬 Mendeley 🐧 KDAB 🥾 AllTrails 🐙 GitHub (🍺 Homebrew)

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2013-16 2016-18 2018-20 2020-22 2022-Present Senior Engineer Senior Marketer Senior Engineer Staff Engineer Principal Engineer

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career tracks 🛤

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🏚 Traditional

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🐙 GitHub

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland Expectation

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland Reality

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differences 🧐

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Management people management (performance reviews, 1:1s, etc.) other leadership/management evaluated on your team

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IC no people management individual contribution evaluated on your work

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Staff+ IC no people management technical leadership (work e.g. review, mentorship) evaluated on your impact

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my role 🙄

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Senior Engineer feature coding work feature team code review feature product feedback

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Staff Engineer cross-organisation coding work mentoring mid-level engineers 💩 umbrella for other engineers unplanned fixes for manager

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Principal Engineer company-wide coding work mentoring senior+ engineers company-wide architecture work company-wide unplanned fixes

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🐙 GitHub

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resources 📚

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https://noidea.dog/glue

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https://staffeng.com

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https://randsinrepose.com/welcome-to-rands-leadership-slack/

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https://mikemcquaid.com/2021/10/01/what-is-a-staff-plus-principal-engineer/

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questions? 🙋 @MikeMcQuaid mike@mikemcquaid.com