/tags/senior/ Recent bookmarks tagged #senior Mon, 02 Nov 2026 08:24:54 +0000 https://jvns.ca/blog/senior-engineer/ most (all?) of the senior engineers I know take on a significant amount of helping-other-people work in addition to their individual programming work. The challenge I see me/my coworkers struggling with today isn’t so much “what?? I have to TALK TO PEOPLE?? UNBELIEVABLE.” and more “wait, how do I balance all of this leadership work with my individual contributions / programming work in a way that’s sustainable for me? How much of what kind of work should I be doing?“<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #career #development #engineering #imported:pinboard #senior #work</p> Wed, 10 Oct 2018 02:52:09 +0000 linkding-ssg:bookmark:31248 career development engineering imported:pinboard senior work https://jvns.ca/blog/senior-engineer most (all?) of the senior engineers I know take on a significant amount of helping-other-people work in addition to their individual programming work. The challenge I see me/my coworkers struggling with today isn’t so much “what?? I have to TALK TO PEOPLE?? UNBELIEVABLE.” and more “wait, how do I balance all of this leadership work with my individual contributions / programming work in a way that’s sustainable for me? How much of what kind of work should I be doing?“<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #career #development #engineering #senior #work</p> Wed, 10 Oct 2018 02:52:09 +0000 linkding-ssg:bookmark:27936 career development engineering senior work