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If, after quitting your job, you hear or get notified about your ex-leader doing these : Speaking negatively about your departure Undermining your decision by criticizing you, your new role or company Attempting to make you feel guilty Spreading resentment throughout the organisation Taking the resignation as a personal attack Prioritizing their own interests over those of the team Being absent or unavailable for the team during the transition Spreading gossip about you Delaying or writing vague performance appraisals or recommendations for you Displaying an “it’s all about me” attitude Failing to acknowledge their own mistakes or shortcomings Blaming others for failures or problems within the team These behaviours scream insecurity, selfishness, and a lack of confidence in building and retaining talent. They crush team morale, erode trust, and send a clear message to the rest of the team: ‘You’re disposable too.’

Stories of folks reaching Staff Engineer roles.

I get approached a lot by recruiters. Like most modern algorithm, powered things, it suggests more of the same. This poses a challenge for me as I want to do things differently.

Most senior roles, technology or otherwise, should be able to strike a good balance between solving existing problems and creating new problems. In aggregate, they should solve more problems than they create, and this is how we make progress; fulfilling general goals but also agitating for improvements. One of my line managers once called this "looking for the right kind of trouble".

Collection of different career paths -- share your experience - GitHub - AnaisUrlichs/awesome-career-paths: Collection of different career paths -- share your experience

(Welcome to #NaBloPoMo - National Blog Posting Month. I'm publishing a new blog post every day in November.) My employer encourages employees to have "career conversations" with their line manager. …

I know holding out through terrible work conditions to officially reach your bonus can be enticing, but remember to account for what you're losing while you wait. Once you've accounted for that, compare that to your estimated bonus to see if it's truly worth it.

Taylor Poindexter (@engineering_bae)Sun, 24 Oct 2021 15:33 +0000

changing tech jobs every 12-24 months early in your career is the biggest indicator of intelligence and success i’ve seen in this industry - especially if you’re a woman - there - i said it

kris nóva (@krisnova)Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:49 +0000

“A promotion is recognition of the work you’re already doing—so work at that level and wait for it to be recognized.” Fuck everything about that; “wait for your work to be rewarded” sounds like exactly how many successful people you know?

Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig)Sun, 18 Apr 2021 04:47 +0000

If you are a senior/staff software engineer or architect, what advice would you give someone hoping to pivot into tech fresh now and be where you are in 10 years?

the apocalypse, but fashion 🦝 (@ElleArmageddon)Fri, 14 Aug 2020 02:26 +0000