You Need Tenure

Software engineers like to give up when their team isn't going perfectly, often interviewing with another company entirely to jump ship. While this can work earlier in your career, it almost always stops as you're approaching staff. This lesson teaches you:

  • Why job hopping to a staff uplevel at a top company is almost impossible
  • Why you need to be in the same team for 2+ years in order to have a real case for staff
  • The ingredients to develop the presence and impact of a staff engineer