This is unbelievably good
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slouc commented on Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels ytch.xyz... · Posted by u/hadisafa
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Parts of this, especially the first few chapters, sound very similar to what I wrote earlier that year (and have then kept updating for another year):
https://github.com/slouc/concurrency-in-scala-with-ce
I also later distilled it into this one:
Would be fun to believe that something I wrote inspired parts of this one, but in reality it's probably just a case of great minds thinking (and sounding) alike :)
Anyway, I'm glad to have found this great text. I agree with the author's statement that "there’s a distinctive lack of good information online", because I felt the same way writing mine. Thanks hn and whoever (re)posted this.
slouc commented on Growing from engineer to manager newsletter.eng-leadership... · Posted by u/gregorojstersek
>not dinosaurs like Oracle
I doubt Mark Reinhold, Brian Goetz or John Rose are undervalued at Oracle because of them not being managers.
Sure, but what I meant is that they might (and I could be wrong) having the old school mindset where your manager is your boss. I worked at Ericsson and I can confirm that's the case over there. Instead, manager should be someone on your "level", just doing different things. We like to say: engineer leads craft and influences people, manager leads people and influences craft.
slouc commented on Growing from engineer to manager newsletter.eng-leadership... · Posted by u/gregorojstersek
If it makes you feel any better, in many big companies that's already the case. Talking about modern Big Tech, not dinosaurs like Oracle or IBM.
At my company (which I feel more comfortable not disclosing), the scale looks like this:
senior engineer == engineering manager.
staff engineer == senior engineering manager.
senior staff engineer == director / VP
This is in terms of scope, responsibility, salary, whom you report to and on which level... everything.
slouc commented on Growing from engineer to manager newsletter.eng-leadership... · Posted by u/gregorojstersek
This trope of "growing" from an engineer to a manager needs to die. I grow as an engineer when I learn new stuff or become better at building things. Becoming a manager is changing jobs, not growth in any meaningful way. Not even in salary in many places
If it makes you feel any better, in many big companies that's already the case. Talking about modern Big Tech, not dinosaurs like Oracle or IBM.