Engineering Advice You Didn't Ask For Keyur, Louie, Mitra, Thiago & Vic

When negotiating your best Tech Offer. What should you consider beyond the money money money?



Links:


Weighted Decision Matrix: https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTED_03.htm
The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth: https://www.amazon.com/Fearless-Organization-Psychological-Workplace-Innovation/dp/1119477247
Progressions.FYI: https://progression.fyi/

Article about Louie's Career Trajectory by Gergely Orosz on PragmaticEngineer.com:

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/from-engineer-to-director?s=r

Shownotes:  

Zain's FAANG Interview Course: https://zainrizvi.gumroad.com/l/insider-advice-on-how-you-can-pass-faang-interviews/ea
Zain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ZainRzv

Promotion


level 1 to level 2


Projects


impact
should you go deep
or should you go for breadth
scope of influence?


What is a promotion packet


How do you become visible internally without hogging all the oxygen?
Opportunity is unevenly distributedHeadquarters vs distributed office
Company culture biased towards delivery or operations


Finding your sponsor

Activating your sponsor

Does bias play a role?

Topics: 


Avoiding Burnout 
Effective Remote Leadership
Effective Remote Work
Effective Remote Meetings
What does it mean to be Async-First & People-First?
Remote-First vs. Remote-Friendly  
People-First vs. Business-First
Recovering from Burnout



Shownotes: 


Marissas's Course - Avoiding Burnout from Remote Work: https://marissagoldberg.gumroad.com/l/avoidingburnout
Marissa's website: https://www.marissagoldberg.com/
Marissa on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mar15sa
Adam Grant on Fighting The Zoom Fatigue (Cameras off doesn't reflect disengagement. It helps to prevent burnout and promote attention): https://twitter.com/adammgrant/status/1430882464407474180
Book - The Culture Map: https://www.amazon.com/Culture-Map-Breaking-Invisible-Boundaries/dp/1610392507/

Topics:

- Teams hiring juniors

    - How important is it to hire juniors?

- How do junior engineers get experience

- What should ideal team look like

- How do evaluate the company for you?

- Expectations as a junior engineer

    - Contributions first 90

- How to onboard junior vs senior

- Is Bootcamp a valid path?



Shownotes:

https://www.crunchbase.com/

https://github.com/tBaxter/questions-for-employers

https://github.com/lkostrowski/job-interview-questions-to-ask-companies