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Re:Become a 1000x engineer or die tryin by nkingsy on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @01:22PM (#35360325)
Table stakes is a poker term meaning you can’t even play the game without it. There’s no dichotomy here.

I’d go further and say that in big tech, well factored well tested code is table stakes and the ability to produce it quickly is assumed. Junior engineers have to prove that to get their first promotion.

If that’s all they show, it will be their last promotion, and that’s perfectly fine too.

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Re:Become a 1000x engineer or die tryin by uejfiweun on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @01:37PM (#35360536)
I think this is very accurate to my experience in big tech. As a person who's only gotten that "first promotion" so far, I'd be interested to hear your summaries of what attributes / skills are looked for at successive levels: e.g. what engineers need to prove to get promoted to Senior, Staff, Senior Staff, etc.
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