Senior Engineer Mindset

Senior Engineer Mindset

English | 2022 | 255 Pages | PDF, EPUB, MOBI | 142 MB

Learn how to become a *true* Senior Engineer.Get promoted, earn a bigger salary, work for top companies

Are you tired of babysitting from your boss? Do you want more autonomy? Looking to solve bigger challenges? Dreaming of those $300,000+/year compensation packages?

You’re not alone.

Getting the senior title is easy – just stick around. But to be a true senior, you need a new way of thinking that goes beyond the code. That’s what unlocks your career.
How I approach technical decisions, writing code, and own outcomes has changed. A lot.

Here’s what’s included:

  • Why senior engineers get nothing done
  • What makes you a senior software engineer anyway?
  • Computer science is not software engineering
  • Your career needs a vision
  • Working IN your career vs. ON your career
  • What a hockey legend can teach you about career development
  • How to grow as a senior engineer or why I got a new job
  • Why engineers are worth so much
  • Why you should talk about engineering salaries
  • Should you work at a startup
  • Should you take a pay cut for equity
  • What I learned while 6x-ing my income in 4 years
  • What if engineers were paid like athletes
  • How to make what you’re worth even if you’re from the wrong country
  • 4 years of coding in San Francisco, lessons learned
  • Building software is a distraction
  • DO more work less
  • What’s more productive, a team or a talented soloist?
  • How to succeed as a lead engineer – tactics and mindsets from practice
  • How to own projects like a senior engineer
  • How Grit supercharges your career
  • Why programmers work at night
  • My favorite lessons from Pragmatic Programmer
  • Why great engineers hack The Process
  • HOW great engineers hack The Process
  • What I learned from Software Engineering at Google
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