JumpyCoconut

Responsibilities of Staff engineer?

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?

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GoofyDonut

Stealth27mo

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

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JumpyCoconut

Stealth27mo

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

MagicalQuokka

Stealth27mo

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.