The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide For Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change by Tanya Reilly

4.4 AVERAGE

padmebobagirl's review

5.0
challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
As a senior software engineer 9 years in the field, this book hit me really profoundly. I work someplace that feels very relatable to a lot of the themes, standards and practices talked about in this book. This definitely helped me understand the type of maturity and steps it takes to transition into that next level role, even if I’m not immediately ready right now, it certainly helped make the path ahead seem clearer. I also have a better appreciation for those in a Staff or leadership position, as I understand better their responsibilities and what they go through. One of the best books I’ve read thus far in my career, it was so enlightening, like in one of those Claritin clear commercials where suddenly after reading it you’re like ohhh wow everything is so much clearer and brighter and makes so much more sense!! How did I miss so much of this and not realize? It motivates me to be a more mature, responsible “adult” and keep growing in my career. I can see myself referencing sections over again the future, the author feels like a true expert who is extremely knowledgeable in both soft and hard skills.
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bombach's review

To vague and airy. It lacked real world examples 

sohanlon07's review

Incredibly dull
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reading_adrian's review

4.0
An easy to read book covering leadership roles and personal development of software architects.
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manu_faktur's review against another edition

4.0
informative medium-paced

sweemeng's review

5.0
Have a lot of good career advice in there. Even in Malaysia there we don't usually have a staff engineer path, the content is still helpful if you want to pivot to management.
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radiali's review

4.0
hopeful informative reflective medium-paced
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iamspialelo's review

5.0
This book had so much information that I could use in my career. I especially like the mention of the engineer who pendulums between either tech lead/coding or the management/coding roles. I never thought of that as a possibility. I borrowed this book from my library digitally, but I plan to purchase it to be part of my personal reference library.
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jackthias's review against another edition

5.0
informative reflective medium-paced

jlowe234's review

3.0
informative inspiring medium-paced