Charity Majors • 11/1/2020

Questionable Advice: The Trap of The Premature Senior

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The article addresses an engineer who has become the most senior on their team but feels trapped by meetings and mentoring, with little time for coding. It argues that deep familiarity with one system is not true seniority and advises leaving to gain diverse experience across multiple roles and tech stacks over several years to become a genuinely senior engineer.

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