Video of practice run of QCon SF 2024 talk on Principal Engineers.
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How to create software quality.
Leadership requires taking some risk.
High-Context Triad.
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Useful tradeoffs are multi-dimensional.
Navigating ambiguity.
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Layers of context.
Navigators
Solving the Engineering Strategy crisis.
The terminal level rulebook.
How to present to executives.
Weak and strong team concepts.
What do Staff engineers actually do?
Managing Staff-plus engineers.
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Write five, then synthesize: good engineering strategy is boring.
Interviewing for Staff-plus roles.
Finding your Staff sponsor.
Engineering strategy.
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Managing technical quality in a codebase.
Finding the right company to reach Staff Engineer.
Deciding to switch companies.
Being visible.
Staff projects.
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Work on what matters.
Build a network of peers.
Staff promotion packets.
Create space for others.
Staff-plus interview processes.
Does the Staff title even matter?
Where do Staff-plus engineers fit into the org?
Picking problems for programming interviews.
Staff engineer archetypes.
Staying aligned with authority.
Getting in the room.
Learn to never be wrong.
Resources for Staff-plus engineers.