Mega-thread:
My Top 10 Most Popular Posts on LinkedIn this year.
This is my very best advice to Level Up Your Career as an Engineering Manager or Staff+ Engineer.
They had ~3M views together and gave me roughly 10k followers.
Here are they 🧵
1️⃣ Don't overfeed the interviewer!
My very best advice on Behavioral Interviews & The STAR Method to Engineering Managers & Staff+ Engineers interviewing to the Big Techs.
It even got an awesome share from @Lethain and a comment from @alexxubyte.
Link: lnkd.in/eKQMbkQH
2️⃣ Insights on How Google Hires Engineering Managers: My favorite insights and perspective from an awesome interview with @drensin.
Link: lnkd.in/edhaRQpH
3️⃣ The 6 Staff+ Engineer Archetypes at Facebook.
A compilation of insights from an unbelievable deep dive @GergelyOrosz did on the Facebook Engineering Culture.
Link: lnkd.in/ec9yd-Fu
4️⃣ How to Onboard Yourself in 3 Weeks.
One of the most actionable ideas I came across on how to speed up your own onboarding process as an Engineering Manager by @scarletinked.
Link: lnkd.in/eR2XJ-WP
5️⃣ Differences among Senior, Staff & Principal Levels.
I just can't recommend enough @whereistanya's book The Staff Engineer's Path. The tech book that I had the most amount of highlights and comments on my Kindle in a very long time.
Link: lnkd.in/eSqwmCfr
6️⃣ Jack of Many Trades, Master of Some!
A mix of many ideas and thoughts I have around Career Growth, from Cal Newport's Career Capital Idea to my view on The T-Shaped Career sparked by yet another amazing newsletter from @GergelyOrosz.
Link: lnkd.in/eXhV_Sbz
7️⃣ How do I get promoted?
My rant around Career Ownership, Promotions, Impact & Influence.
Link: lnkd.in/eiv9ghba
8️⃣ What do VPs of Engineering do?
My highlights from a superb interview my VP of Engineering - Lindsey Bleimes - gave to @nubank's blog.
Link: lnkd.in/e4uATsVG
9️⃣ When Bad Decisions are Better than No Decisions:
Probably the most impactful lesson I learned as an Engineering Manager: Decreasing the cost of Decision Making.
Link: lnkd.in/e9qhzbbc
🔟 Degrees of Autonomy & Ownership instead of Seniority Level For Job Titles:
A mind-blowing insight I got reading an old blogpost by @rkoutnik:
What if we started using Implementer, Solver & Finder instead of Junior, Senior and Staff?
Link: lnkd.in/ekcuH8fn
If you liked this thread and want more tips on Career, Big Tech Interviews, Promotions, Onboarding, Mentoring... as an Engineering Manager or Staff+ Engineer, follow me here at @thiagoghisi & on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/thiagoghisi/