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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, especially when they could be phrased more generally. I think being able to talk to people who believe they know more without sounding condescending yourself is important in any context, no need to make it about respecting authority. Does the author believe condescending to people lower than them is acceptable?