Getting to a senior IC position in a...

Getting to a senior IC position in a big company requires significant impact; the higher the position, the broader the impact needs to be. At a certain point, your work needs to be high leverage to have that impact, which may mean something different than what you were doing before." "" "Specifically, while at first, as a software engineering IC you are coding a lot, at a certain point, that starts not to be the highest leverage use of your time. That's a tricky transition, as it takes a lot of strategic thinking to pick the right things to do yourself and the right things to delegate to others. " "" "The delegation component is also tricky in and of itself, given as an IC, you don't have anyone you can directly tell what to do. However, through your influence and by finding alignment between things that need to be done and the things the folks around you need for their growth, you can delegate a task to someone excited to take it on, as it is mutually beneficial for them to work on it! #bendevtip

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