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The real value in evolving as an engineer isn’t solely about amassing a heap of isolated skills but weaving them into an intricate web of abilities that’s greater than the sum of its parts.
— Addy Osmani # 24th October 2023, 6:09 am
Becoming a good engineer is about collecting experience. Each project, even small ones, is a chance to add new techniques and tools to your toolbox. Where this delivers even more value is when you can solve problems by pairing techniques learned on one project with tools learned working on another. It all adds up.
— Addy Osmani # 18th June 2022, 9:21 pm
If you have to choose between engineering and ML, choose engineering. It’s easier for great engineers to pick up ML knowledge, but it’s a lot harder for ML experts to become great engineers.
— Chip Huyen # 24th June 2020, 5:24 am
One of the standards you have to have demonstrated to being able to reach Principle Engineer inside Amazon is “Respect what has gone before”. It’s very likely you don’t know the why, what or how of it. Often what was written was the best that could be done to the constraints.
— Paul Graydon # 25th April 2019, 5:52 pm
The way I would talk about myself as a senior engineer is that I’d say “I know how I would solve the problem” and because I know how I would solve it I could also teach someone else to do it. And my theory is that the next level is that I can say about myself “I know how others would solve the problem”. Let’s make that a bit more concrete. You make that sentence: “I can anticipate how the API choices that I’m making, or the abstractions that I’m introducing into a project, how they impact how other people would solve a problem.”
— Malte Ubl # 15th April 2018, 5:23 pm