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Articles

• 3 key tips for maximum impact, and what do Big Tech engineers even do? - Priyam Mohanty

• 8 Hard Truths I learned when I got laid off from my SWE job - Steven Buccini

• 10 questions to ask in a job interview that will really expose a company’s culture - Karen Eber

• 15 Things Every Man Should Have in His Desk - The Art of Manliness

• A Technology Leader's Non-Technical Reading List - Stay SaaSy

• An Engineering Leader's Job Search Algorithm - Kevin Conroy

• Becoming a go-to person gets you promoted. Here's how to do it as a software engineer. - Jordan Cutler

• Breaking Down Tasks - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

• Create a Growth Culture, Not a Performance-Obsessed One - Tony Schwartz

• Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice - Patrick McKenzie

• FAANG Career Ladder - Ryan Peterman

  • Junior (L3) to Mid-level (L4)

  • Mid-level (L4) to Senior (L5)

  • Senior (L5) vs Staff (L6)

  • Staff (L6) vs Senior Staff (L7)

• Finding a New Software Developer Job - Henrik Warne

• From Microsoft Intern to Meta Staff Engineer: Raviraj Achar - Ryan Peterman, The Developing Dev

• Get your work recognized: write a brag document - Julia Evans

• Great management and leadership books for the technical track - Nicole Tietz

• Guida Galattica al profilo LinkedIn (English version) - Guido Penta

• Habits of great software engineers - Vadim Kravcenko

• How to do things if you're not that smart and don't have any talent - Adaobi Adibe

• How To Make Your Boss Adore You - Ask A Manager

• How to waste your career, one comfortable year at a time - Apoorva Govind, Valley Girl Newsletter

• If Your Boss Could Do Your Job, You’re More Likely to Be Happy at Work - Benjamin Artz, Amanda Goodall, Andrew J. Oswald

• Mental Health in Software Engineering - Vadim Kravcenko

• Mid Career Stuckness - Subbu Allamaraju

• My Tech Promotion Algorithm - Steve Huynh

• Speedrunning Guide - Ryan Peterman

  • Junior (L3) -> Mid-level (L4)

  • Mid-level (L4) -> Senior (L5)

  • Senior (L5) -> Staff (L6)

• The Ask A Manager guide To Asking For A Raise - Ask A Manager

• The best career advice I’ve received - Nicholas C. Zakas

• The Curse of the Senior Software Engineer - Dmitry Kudryavtsev

• The four-hour work day - Oliver Burkeman

• The Next Next Job, a framework for making big career decisions - Andrew Chen

• The reality of Big Tech's 'fake work' problem - Hugh Langley and Grace Key, Business Insider

• The senior engineer plateau - Benjamin Yolken

• Things your manager might not know - Julia Evans

• Trimodal Nature of Tech Compensation in the US, UK and India - Gergely Orosz

• Up or Out: Solving the IT Turnover Crisis - Alex Papadimoulis

• What does a CTO actually do? - Vadim Kravcenko

• What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team - Charles Duhigg

• What makes a strategy great - Jason Cohen, A Smart Bear

• What Silicon Valley "Gets" about Software Engineers that Traditional Companies Do Not - Gergely Orosz

• Why software projects fail - Vadim Kravchenko

• Why techies leave Big Tech - Gergely Orosz

• Why The Status Quo Is So Hard To Change In Engineering Teams - Antoine Boulanger

• Working at a Startup vs in Big Tech - Gergely Orosz

GitHub Repositories

• 100+ Resources to become a great engineering leader

• Path to Senior Engineer handbook - Jordan Cutler

• The 500 Highest Paying Companies (for Software Engineers) - Mike Tromba

• The Eng Team Handbook

• The Open Guide to Equity Compensation

Hacker News Threads

• Ask HN: Are you a “lifer”? If so why?

• Ask HN: How are the current layoffs affecting non-US developers?

• Ask HN: How do you find a "boring" tech job?

• Ask HN: New job at BigCo. Everything has friction

• Ask HN: What companies have publicly available handbooks?

• Ask HN: What do you talk about in 1-on-1s with your managers?

• Ask HN: Who's not sucky to work for?

• Tell HN: I have the perfect job, why is it not enough?

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Videos

• Rockstar Software Engineer Story: SW2 to Principal in 4 Years - How To Get Promoted FAST

• Speedrun Your Tech Promotion - A Life Engineered

Websites

• 50 Ways to Get a Job

• High Paying Tech Companies

• Easy Application (GitHub)

• Layoff Runbook

• layoffs.fyi

• levels.fyi

  • Heatmap

• LinkedIn

• LinkedIn Skill Assessments (GitHub)

• moreThanFAANGM (GitHub)

• promotions.fyi

• SkillSets

• StaffEng

• TechPays Europe

• Unoffice Hours

• We've all faced rejection

• You Got This!

Workplaces

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