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How to grow into technical lead role?

Dear all,I will be starting a new role next month and I have the ambition to grow into a technical lead role. I have little over three years experience now and I consider myself as a mid level software engineer (definitely not senior yet). What are the skills you believe that a good technical lead should have and any tips on how one can obtain these skills? Since I will be joining a new...

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Re:Stephen Hawking has died on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @04:32AM (#16583204)
And Albert Einstein died at the age of 76 as well. What a coincidence.
Re:It's Getting Harder to Tell Banks from Tech Companies on Thursday February 15, 2018 @03:14PM (#16387186)
Sometimes in the early stage of their careers people make mistakes (including myself) to move from tech company to a bank. Never doing this mistake again. I've never seen so much legacy code, poor engineering decision and code standards in my career so far. Of course this could be limited experience to my department, but given the comments here it feels like this is a standard situation across the "tech" in the financial world.