How I operated as a staff engineer at Heroku

Re:How I operated as a staff engineer at Heroku by beams on Friday September 11, 2020 @12:37AM (#24439243)

Great questions and answers. Admittedly, I can’t help but feel there aren’t very many pain points mentioned, which makes me ask what’s being left out.

Additionally, how often was coding actually involved in this role? I hear this claim often but in my experience it’s rare. One-line fixes don’t count. Specifically, what projects were you a code contributor to?

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Re:How I operated as a staff engineer at Heroku by bradlys on Friday September 11, 2020 @01:05AM (#24439349)

I'm going to guess quite infrequently based on this first sentence of how she spends her time.

> While I do write code from time-to-time, it’s only after I’ve delivered on my obligations on these four functions.

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Re:How I operated as a staff engineer at Heroku by kenhwang on Friday September 11, 2020 @01:24AM (#24439450)

For me, it's either the core or foundational part of the most important projects to the company, or, one liners followed by a paragraph of comments in some tricky/obscure part of a codebase no one has looked at in a while.

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