Done a large beard to signify superiority, hold a 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑓𝑓 and say to all those stupid feature requests

"YOU SHALL NOT PASS!"

Beard: done already 
 “You shall not pass”: In progress 😂

Software Engineer

Staff engineers are the earliest technical leaders so losing some amount of hands-on coding does make sense. Your impact will be via maximising the amount of quality technical output of your team (also influencing other teams' a bit). Coding would still be there but not as much as L4 or L5.

Software Developer

What is the usual expectation from a staff engg in your company or org? I’ve seen folks at higher levels in my company being relegated to just system design, non functional requirements and managin...

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What is the usual expectation from a staff engg in your company or org? I’ve seen folks at higher levels in my company being relegated to just system design, non functional requirements and managing people from tech side. My concern is losing touch with hands on coding. Is it true everywhere?

Responsibilities of Staff engineer?

Responsibilities of Staff engineer?- Grapevine

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I am honestly just furious at the pay difference between the salary of an sde and a pm. Both work just as hard.

Why are project managers paid less?

Solution architect

Currently have 10years of experience and am at cross roads of next steps in career. Need help from senior folks here to know pros and cons on either directions I have a chance to move up the ladder

Want to know career opportunities say next 10-20 years and pay as well. 

As for me, love hands on tech but scared how long can I sustain the mojo. 

People management wise not bad but need to learn many steps in there to become great.

If it’s of any help current TC: 60L

Engineering Manager route v/s Staff/ Principal Software Engineer

I'm a lead engineer at a small-mid Indian Saas company. 
Been at the company for more than 6 years (total yoe 8+) and used to like the company and culture, alway top performer.
Had been managing my team really well, mentoring them.. 
juggling multiple projects, reducing tech debt, improving developer experience.. 
and I enjoyed it.

Now the company is trying to transition my role to more of a technical product manager where I have to think about how to improve the product, new features, take customer feedback, understand business analytics, usage, adoption, iteratively improve and deliver value.

I'm not sure if I'm ready for this role. 
I hate this MBA shizz.

What should I do? Try to like this, work on it and ace it?
or let my management know that this is not what I signed up for..

I feel low at work because I'm not able to meet my expectations (let alone my manager's)

Role transition and lows due to that 🙄

I feel there is no light for this tunnel for many more months to come. 11150+ Applications for 1 Post. Can't imagine the level of competition.

11,100+ applicants for 1 Job, Is market really getting better as mainstream says?

Analyst

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Have a interview scheduled for tomorrow.

have already had 2 rounds of interview - one with Chief Product Officer and Principal Product Manager.

Now they have scheduled an interview with Director of Engineering.

Company is US based MNC.

How should I go about preparation?

any tips, suggestions welcome.

Product interview with engineering director. what should I prepare?

Product Manager

SDE1, SDE2, staff engineer

What exactly do you do/code and how does work change as you progress up the flagpole?

Software folks of GV, help a non software simpleton understand what exactly you do?

Generalist

There are news that massive layoffs are coming in Paytm. HR and Business Heads have been given targets - average 30% reduction expected across all teams. #bravenewworld

Massive Layoffs Coming - Paytm

Data scientist

I have 2 years of Backend experience and I feel like masters won’t add much to my knowledge or experience and want an honest reply to all the persons who did masters in US. 
I come from a Tier 1 college but have a decent CGPA and no research experience whatsoever so won’t get hotshot colleges but the ones which I would get would it add anything to my skillset and I don’t wanna do it just for the sake of getting masters and working in the US.

How good is a Masters

I have 2 yoe in SDE domain. Looking at the working hours of my leads and my manager, I feel like all they do is work and are mostly on calls. My manager even replies at 2-3am in the night. Plus how you guys feel about being sacked due to high package in recession or budget cut time? Would love hear answers if anyone have 10+ yoe.

How is life as an Engineering Manager or higher designation at top MNC?

Assume you're currently enjoying your role as a jack of all trades. If your manager come and tell you that you need to choose whether you need to be a 
- Software Engineer
- Product Manager
- Program Manager
- Analyst
- Product Operations Manager

Which one would you choose? And why? 


Note: You're currently contributing to all of this in someway or the other, and the manager wants to ensure that you are also having a good career growth within the company, or you should be ready if you're looking for an external job.

The manager and the team is 100% in on supporting you on any of the above choice. 

[These are not random options, but came up because of the exposure to these domains and the related results delivered]

Selecting a Career

Ask me anything except my company name, or things that can reveal my identity. I may respectfully choose not to respond to your question based on my own judgement.

Here’s a brief intro about me: I’ve worked as both software engineering manager & software technical architect over the last 18+ years on various tech stacks managing backend, frontend and a little bit of cloud. I have seen ups and downs in the software industry. Currently I’m working as a senior architect in one of the product based companies in India.

I’ve been an Engineering Manager before. Ask me anything.

Software architect

I have just joined a new organization where I've joined their Platform Engineering- Developer Experience team. Here my team handles CI/CD, Platform management of the core engineering team interacting with the resources like database, queue etc because they can't contact the resources directly. So there is code involvement as well which I love.

The pay is good here as well. But in my past experiences I've worked mostly on core engineering. I have 5 years of experience. 

Should I look for change or Platform engineering is good and challenging as well? And would It pay more in future in monetary terms as well?

Should I switch the roles from Platform Engineering - Developer Experience

Why AMA?-
New to GV. I see potential here; trying to gauge audience and perhaps I can talk about a thing or two; can definitely learn from ya’al otherwise.

Primer Qs (from some successful AMAs outside of GV)-
What tech has better future?
Is Ai going to kill our jobs?
How to increase Tc 5x, 10x, 20x+?
Startups vs big corps?

Background, Tc stuff-
Decade+ yoe
Started with <10Lpa. Crossed >10Lpm.
Life is fun and no amount of money is enough.
I’ve seen it firsthand that the investments and luxuries grow at far bigger rate than your comp, Can’t complain though.

A Staff engineer :: AMA

Need inputs for preparation of staff engineer interview. What are the areas one should focus on ? What difficult can the interview be if we target a big company like Google

Staff engineer interview preparation

In the long term, can I make a good career by just being a developer?
My POV: In market, business matters more than technology. Selling the product is more important than creating it. I understand that eventually I will be valued for my industry experience and the ability of managing people and business. Is there any other way where I can stay in IT industry and keep on working in innovation and creation?

Are developer roles sustainable?

Welcome to IT Company Discussion's Private Community

After 15 or 18 years of experience, what do folks do, are there many levels above principal engineer? Do they become CTO ? Financially independent so retire ?

Question for software folks

Hi Team, 

What’s the salary bands at Staff and PE? Which all companies have PE track? 

What distinguishes Staff from PE? 

Sorry for a lot of noob questions. 

Thanks in advance.

Staff Engineer vs Principal Engineer

Hi, just reaching out to people working in core technology and engineering (Not IT, Consulting, PM, UI/UX People) for general discussion on the state of R&D in India, your pay, comparisons to IT folks by your family friends etc.
You may be working in R&D as an engineer or building some deep tech product as an entrepreneur
Non exclusive list
Mechanical/Chemical/Material engineers
People working on Drones/Robots/Transportation/Defense Tech

I am missing a lot of fields here, but I believe there are lot of communities out there of software engineers, design folks, MBAs, not much of the hands on engineers in India

Shoutout to Core/Deep Tech People

Robotics engineer

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I have 6 years experience. My current base/fixed is 60 LPA. (I also got a 5 lakh bonus and 5 lakh of my ESOPs vested this year making my total vested about 30 lakh. So the total comp is 70). 

I'm being offered a senior engineer position in an early stage startup (as part of the founding engineer team). They haven't given an offer yet.

Being early stage, the emphasis will most likely be on ESOPs. How do I evaluate this and set my expectations? (If I were to switch to a mature company, I believe the hikes usually are between 15-20%? How does this work for early stage startups?)

Responsibilities of Staff engineer?

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