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brianm
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
Huh, I got cottage core, not dystopia!
brianm
·10 maanden geleden·discuss
Not really -- non-profit boards are usually volunteers, even ion the non-profit has revenue used for operations.
brianm
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
Most companies, in my experience, don't actually know how to make use of Staff+ engineers. I spent years at a medium sized public "tech" company just trying to help the company change engineering enough to make use of these folks, and we go to a place where we could... mostly.

FANG and FANG-model (anyone copying FANG engineering/product model) companies do it well and have the bulk of success cases. Look for engineering-lead companies first, product lead companies second.

A key question when interviewing is "how is the roadmap established?" You want answers where senior leadership establishes goals (strategic or metric), product provides their understanding of opportunities, and engineering decides what to actually do. Even then, there will be the common failure model of EMs doing the roadmapping, not senior (staff+) ICs, but you can tease apart how that works, as it is always going to be a mix.