#leadership like system architecture

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ruby patrol
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Oh no lol. More on the lines of product management, and then managerial, vp, svp, etc. Eventually transitioning out of tech, but progressing into a technical people manager type roles?

summer wing
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Or at least talk to your manager about wanting to move into

ruby patrol
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That's the plan, but as I said.. not for a couple of years at least

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I like coding and plan to become at least a senior dev if I get the chance.. and will switch then

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so maybe 5 more years min?

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and I mean.. my biggest flaw is that I dont like LC. Will have to just work hard on it 🙂

hushed zealot
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better to switch to sth like a business analyst role tbh because it leads into prod. mgmt

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the biz analyst at my team used to do data sci stuff. now they also keep up to date w stuff like aws to have better understanding of the tech as a whole

summer wing
hushed zealot
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also theres a distinction between “not liking leetcode but able to be somewhat competent at it after some not too insane amount of effort” vs “not liking leetcode and lacking the aptitude to perform well in it unless putting in some insane level of effort”

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2 types of engr:

    1. finished their allocated work quickly. uses additional time to explore the codebase, deep dive into technicalities of things like rendering behavior, comes up w poc like test frameworks or ui library or what have u not to improve team productivity
    1. only learns something new within allocated tasks. either is too slow to have more time to explore new things / complains about not having enough to do but does not have self initiative to start / learn sth on their own
summer wing
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Your best chance of getting beyond L5 is usually to switch to management track

hushed zealot
summer wing
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Every pm I talked to is like “ya I was a swe for a bit then I decided to go into pm” lmao

ruby patrol
ruby patrol
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@summer wing and @hushed zealot , where do you guys work? and how long have you guys been in the field?

hushed zealot
hushed zealot
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i dont even live in the US so tbh “good” software engr opportunities here are far and between. most roles even in big tech here are mostly for roles like “trust and safety” “sales”

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damn im.. at 4 yoe already it seems. did a lot of internships asides actual full timr work though

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but thats why i am on the camp of “no point wasting more time to grind lc” esp if ure like me who is mediocre at lc and already has a diff career endgoal compared to the typical prinicpal engr / solution architect route

hushed zealot
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also i job hopped a lot to try to compensate for bad decisions made right aft i graduated from undergrad. which sux in terms of building up career equity.

but for my current org i might stay in this place for a while. CATMONCH was on contract for a front end engr and ui ux designer role, gg to move out to another role as a fte

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the tldr is, im someone who cares about the product that i work on, and not just pigeon-hole myself into a role. which is the opposite of what most / all of the engrs in my team are… (wrt pigeon holing). most of em want to go to the route of S.A so they prefer to spend their time w things like making code more performant

at my current role / prev roles usually i just step ip to handle random proj mgmt tasks. like backlog management, ticket refinement, test plans etc. funnily enough all of these other “glue work” is what i excel in, compared to actual technical work :/ which eventually made me just decide to def transition out of swe aft my curr role bc otherwise i will be stuck w “code monkey” work since i am unable to compete enough in terms of technical proficiency LOL