Staff Engineer (L6) Describes Most Important Skill - Sammy Nguyen

Sammy is a Staff Engineer (E6) at Gusto.

- **Most important skill**: level up and unblock your team. At the Staff level, you need to have multiplicative impact on the team, which means making your teammates better.
- **Advice**: talk to people and learn about the problems. This is how you learn about the organization and land enough impact.

Here's the full playlist asking engineers what the most important skill is for their level: [Asking 7 Levels Of Engineers The Most Important Skill](https://www.jointaro.com/playlist/J9Io5lDGaYUpI8vGrUyI/)

Helpful links:
- [The Journey to Staff Engineer In Big Tech (Panel Discussion)](https://www.jointaro.com/lesson/SaYyJGLYvrAy4XGrDhy7/the-journey-to-staff-engineer-in-big-tech-panel-discussion/)
- Taro's top 10 to get promoted from [mid-level to senior engineer](https://www.jointaro.com/playlist/AUMiBTvYUv0gcOzuu26V/)
- Taro's top 10 to get promoted from [senior to staff engineer](https://www.jointaro.com/playlist/YD8LMCSlE71VUGUbNAWM/)
- [David Pan on what makes a great tech lead](https://www.jointaro.com/lesson/uHqZZ15SK19MatEvLSO6/what-makes-a-truly-great-tech-lead-a-vp-of-engineerings-perspective/)
- [Sammy on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-nguyen-43519023/)

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Staff Engineer (L6) Describes Most Important Skill - Sammy Nguyen