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Career14d ago·1 entry

from my first year as a staff engineer

Influence without owning every PR took longer than I expected. Saying no clearly protected the roadmap more than heroic overtime. Writing the docs nobody wants to write still changes team speed. I spent more time unblocking others than shipping my own features. Staff work is often invisible until the org feels the absence of it. Still learning how to measure impact without vanity metrics.

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NNaveen Kumar
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Career14d ago·1 entry

from my first year as a staff engineer

Influence without owning every PR took longer than I expected. Saying no clearly protected the roadmap more than heroic overtime. Writing the docs nobody wants to write still changes team speed. I spent more time unblocking others than shipping my own features. Staff work is often invisible until the org feels the absence of it. Still learning how to measure impact without vanity metrics.

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MManjunath Gowda
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Career14d ago·1 entry

from my first year as a staff engineer

Influence without owning every PR took longer than I expected. Saying no clearly protected the roadmap more than heroic overtime. Writing the docs nobody wants to write still changes team speed. I spent more time unblocking others than shipping my own features. Staff work is often invisible until the org feels the absence of it. Still learning how to measure impact without vanity metrics.

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AAnusha Reddy
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Career16d ago·1 entry

from my first year as a staff engineer

Influence without owning every PR took longer than I expected. Saying no clearly protected the roadmap more than heroic overtime. Writing the docs nobody wants to write still changes team speed. I spent more time unblocking others than shipping my own features. Staff work is often invisible until the org feels the absence of it. Still learning how to measure impact without vanity metrics.

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SSumanth Rao
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Career16d ago·1 entry

from my first year as a staff engineer

Influence without owning every PR took longer than I expected. Saying no clearly protected the roadmap more than heroic overtime. Writing the docs nobody wants to write still changes team speed. I spent more time unblocking others than shipping my own features. Staff work is often invisible until the org feels the absence of it. Still learning how to measure impact without vanity metrics.

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PPradeep Kumar
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Career16d ago·1 entry

from my first year as a staff engineer

Influence without owning every PR took longer than I expected. Saying no clearly protected the roadmap more than heroic overtime. Writing the docs nobody wants to write still changes team speed. I spent more time unblocking others than shipping my own features. Staff work is often invisible until the org feels the absence of it. Still learning how to measure impact without vanity metrics.

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JJhansi Rani
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Career16d ago·1 entry

from my first year as a staff engineer

Influence without owning every PR took longer than I expected. Saying no clearly protected the roadmap more than heroic overtime. Writing the docs nobody wants to write still changes team speed. I spent more time unblocking others than shipping my own features. Staff work is often invisible until the org feels the absence of it. Still learning how to measure impact without vanity metrics.

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PPhani Kumar
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Career16d ago·1 entry

from my first year as a staff engineer

Influence without owning every PR took longer than I expected. Saying no clearly protected the roadmap more than heroic overtime. Writing the docs nobody wants to write still changes team speed. I spent more time unblocking others than shipping my own features. Staff work is often invisible until the org feels the absence of it. Still learning how to measure impact without vanity metrics.

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TTomás Ribeiro
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Career16d ago·1 entry

from my first year as a staff engineer

Influence without owning every PR took longer than I expected. Saying no clearly protected the roadmap more than heroic overtime. Writing the docs nobody wants to write still changes team speed. I spent more time unblocking others than shipping my own features. Staff work is often invisible until the org feels the absence of it. Still learning how to measure impact without vanity metrics.

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HHannah Kim
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Career18d ago·1 entry

from my first year as a staff engineer

Influence without owning every PR took longer than I expected. Saying no clearly protected the roadmap more than heroic overtime. Writing the docs nobody wants to write still changes team speed. I spent more time unblocking others than shipping my own features. Staff work is often invisible until the org feels the absence of it. Still learning how to measure impact without vanity metrics.

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PPooja Chauhan
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Career18d ago·1 entry

from my first year as a staff engineer

Influence without owning every PR took longer than I expected. Saying no clearly protected the roadmap more than heroic overtime. Writing the docs nobody wants to write still changes team speed. I spent more time unblocking others than shipping my own features. Staff work is often invisible until the org feels the absence of it. Still learning how to measure impact without vanity metrics.

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RRahul Mehra
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Career18d ago·1 entry

from my first year as a staff engineer

Influence without owning every PR took longer than I expected. Saying no clearly protected the roadmap more than heroic overtime. Writing the docs nobody wants to write still changes team speed. I spent more time unblocking others than shipping my own features. Staff work is often invisible until the org feels the absence of it. Still learning how to measure impact without vanity metrics.

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RRohith Hegde
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