Grow your engineering career
Your code gets you to senior. To go further you need more than code — interviews, negotiation, picking the right problems, and knowing what the business actually pays you for. These essays cover the career side of software engineering.
Career essays
3 articles from October 2025 · show all
The job behind the job [of a high level IC]
Advancing big goals while you stay on top of operational day-to-day fires _is the job_. This is hard. Here are a few tips I've found helpful.
Feedback is a strange thing
Performance oscillates around your mean. Your average is what matters.
The grind won't get you there
Don't grind on something the company doesn't value. Hard work is not rewarded. **_Outcomes_** are rewarded.