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An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding (skamille.medium.com)

submitted 2 years ago by jim to c/experienced_devs

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I generally don't like "listicles", especially ones that try to make you feel bad by suggesting that you "need" these skills as a senior engineer.

However, I do find this list valuable because it serves as a self-reflection tool.

Here are some areas I am pretty weak in:

How to write a design doc, take feedback, and drive it to resolution, in a reasonable period of time
How to convince management that they need to invest in a non-trivial technical project
How to repeat yourself enough that people start to listen

Anything here resonate with y'all?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I've seen this text when it was published, and it was pretty eye-opening at the time. I liked it so much I've set a quarterly reminder to go back to it and review where did I manage to improve.