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

submitted 1 year 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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[–] HairHeel 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How to convince management that they need to invest in a non-trivial technical project

How to convince management to stop throwing money at a dead end plan

[–] valence_engineer 4 points 1 year ago

In my sad experience, you don't but simply try to avoid getting caught in the blast radius of it failing. Someone approved/supported the project and someone approved/supported the sunk cost that already went into it. Those people have more power than you and they will not like looking bad due to you.