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Engineering voices who are extremely high quality: - Ryan Murphy, engineering manager at Yelp. His content on staff+ engineering is 🔥 - Ryan Peterman, staff engineer at Instagram. He went from junior to staff extremely quickly. A lot to learn from his journey! - Jade Wilson, SWE at Microsoft, her content on interviews is great! - Rahul Pandey, ex staff engineer at Meta, now founder Taro (YC S22). His content and community will help you get promoted faster! - Jordan Cutler, senior software engineer. His newsletter, High Growth Engineer is very good! Who else would you add? #softwareengineering

Seema was a coding genius, but her career was broken. 14 years in the same role, with nothing to show but stress, burnout, and a pile of rejection letters. Then, she discovered the Top Engineer Method. A few months later, she was negotiating offers from Google and Meta, ultimately joining Meta as an E5. Kudos, Seema. But aiming for FAANG et al. demands a leap of faith in your capabilities and acing people intelligence. Most engineers are brilliant, but they suck at the game. They think their code is enough. Spoiler alert: It's not. The Top Engineer Method is about becoming the engineer companies fight over. It's about confidence, influence, and negotiation skills. It's about ditching imposter syndrome and owning your worth. You learn to develop: - The 10x engineer mindset - Building trust with your peers - Influencing without authority - Connecting your work to business - Delivering high-impact work without burnout It's the difference between being a replaceable resource and landing the job you've always dreamed of. Tired of being undervalued? Ready to experience your true potential? Your dream job is waiting. Join the 50+ engineers who've transformed their careers with the Top Engineer Method. Stop waiting for permission. Grab your complimentary lesson and start your journey today. https://lnkd.in/g7_N8sNh

People said I wouldn’t get my second job because I needed 7 years experience. People said it was impossible to make money in creative tech. People told me I shouldn’t build a creative company because only Adobe was worth a billion dollars. But guess what? I had only six months experience for my second job and got it. My team and I are among the preferred creative partners of TikTok, Meta and Google. And I’ve grown my team to over 50 employees. The lesson? People will always give their opinions. What matters most is who’s running the show. This doesn’t mean you should be an island of knowledge and ignore everyone. It means you should be selective of opinions, especially those that might deter you from your ambitions. Always stay determined and resolute in pursuing your aspirations. The worst that can happen is you learn, and no one can take away that from you. P.S: What’s something most people thought you never could achieve but did anyway?

Today is my Last Day @ Meta After an amazing journey, tackling many problems and aiding Meta in building out the Privacy Incident Management practice/program, my time has come to say "so long". It has been a rewarding time in my life. Many have asked me, "why are you leaving"? At the end of the day, I have decided that I need to build my own thing. Stay tuned I will share more about that in the not so distant future. Having said that, here are some of the learnings that will stick with me forever and carry with me on the next steps of my professional and personal journey. 1/ Impact is delivered through "we" not "me". The true super power of a leader (IMHO), is surrounding themself with talented and driven people. Those that like to challenge themselves and make an impact each and everyday. 2/ Self Care is paramount. In order to be the best leader you can be, you have to make sure you are taking care of yourself first. It is not selfish, it is required. There is a reason they say put the mask on yourself prior to your child on an airplane. 3/ Focus on the people first, any leader worth their salt leads with empathy and curiosity. 4/ Failure is okay, it is through failure we learn. 5/ Don't be afraid of making BIG BETs...some of the best innovations in history started out as epic failures that could be leveraged for other use cases. 6/ Don't put off something tomorrow that can be addressed today 7/ Never lose sight of the power of a positive attitude. We all have bad days, but your ability to still show up and bring positivity becomes infectious. 8/ Fully engage - In every meeting, async communications and/or moment. Be 100% invested. The most precious commodity in life is time!! 9/ Lead with curiosity and curb your bias. 10/ You might disagree but always assume positive intent. 11/ The collective intelligence will always come forward with the best outcome 12/ No one wakes up in the morning thinking, today I want to make a mistake. They just happen. What is important is how you respond to mistakes. How do you learn from it and try to prevent it from happening? There are more learnings but that is enough for now. My sincere appreciation to Meta (formally Facebook) for allowing me to play a role in trying to shape how the industry thinks about open network hardware, capacity planning @ scale and Users Privacy.

Today, Meta is a threat to Google; tomorrow, it could be Apple or even Amazon. My realization here? Our world is always changing. It’s never a static environment. So, the best thing we can do is be prepared for the uncertain future. Avoid overthinking and overanalyzing, though! It’s almost like that saying, “luck favors the prepared.” Beat your version yesterday, and I think you’ll have a better chance of winning. Move. Take action. Fail forward. Always assume that everything can change and prepare for that possibility. PS: It feels like I’m writing my posts here like a day-to-day diary. I’m just flowing with my thoughts, and honestly, I love it so far (I hope you are, too!). #sofiajane #businessrealization #change

Getting cursed out on the internet is never a fun thing. In all my years on social media and customer service related fields, I've heard some things. I've been told some things. And while it's usually pretty easy to separate myself from the product, it's a different story when the obscenities and vitriol are being spewed AT me. I sat at my computer yesterday (yes, on a Sunday) as it all came hurling through Meta business suite. He was livid, attacking anything and everything about the brand, the retailer, the manufacturer, and then turning it to the human behind the screen. My kids saw me (not my screen) and asked why I was crying. Yes, I cried. 20% because I'm a human (a pretty nice one at that) with feelings that get hurt occasionally. The other 80%? Because behind the language and personal attacks I saw the human in HIM. A father, hurting because his child was hurting, angry because there were things about the situation he just couldn't control, frustrated beyond belief at who knows what else. The attacks didn't stop, but my initial judgements did. Fast-forward to now. I'm staring at a message from him on Meta business suite, and it just says, "Thank you so much." The tears are coming again. I'm not a top expert, I don't have a multi-billion dollar company, and I haven't written my best-seller yet. But I DO know that the way to do business in a way that is successful beyond money and shareholders, in a way that leaves this world a better place when we're gone, is to humanize the people we work with and work for. We're all going through it. Let's go through it together. ❤️

Google folks... keep your head up. This too shall pass. If you have worked in FAANG+ for any period of time you will be familiar with what Google employees are going through. It feels like day after day of bad press. Your family is reaching out asking if you are OK and if Google is really a sinking ship. Every random VP departure somehow now has a news article associated with it. It comes in waves. It seems like right now, for whatever reason, is your turn. It sucks and it is distracting. For the last decade my household had me at Meta and my wife at Uber. It felt like one of our companies was the one on the negative wave constantly. For a period, Apple could do the exact same thing as Meta and get heralded in the press while Meta would get demonized. It constantly swings. Meta is riding that wave up right now. Press sentiment is super positive. Articles about Zuck being the come back kid replaced ones about it being time for him to step down. A Meta executive would beat the drum in a paraphrased version of Joe Paterno's "You're never as good as you think you are when you win; and you're never as bad as you feel when you lose".

On October 18, 2022, I accepted a position as an IT Project Manager for the Google Account, despite having no prior knowledge of network and IT infrastructure. I knew the job would not be easy, but I embraced the challenge and uncertainty. After two weeks, I found myself managing a two-floor remodel project without any previous experience. Realizing how much I needed to learn, I dedicated my leisure time to research and practice. After several months, I completed the two-floor project on schedule. Later, I executed a four-floor remodel project and a two-floor remodel project simultaneously, along with over ten tasks. Then, I started another remodel project. Eventually, I completed all these projects and tasks and moved onto a meta project which is still ongoing. This precious experience taught me that “starting” is more important than anything else. Don’t wait until you feel ready to accept a challenge, because you’ll never be 100% ready. #ProjectManager #Google #PersonalDevelopment #PersonalGrowth

The author of the article ( (Andrew Yeung) got promoted quickly at companies like Meta and Google by following this career tip It's simple: Do your current job well. Identify the tasks your manager dislikes. Learn how to do them. Do them well. #meta #google #promotion

Looking for the secret to quick promotion? Look no further! Many employees struggle to find the key to success, but this Business Insider article reveals a simple yet effective strategy. Eating the frog for my boss was the easiest thing I did to get promoted quickly at Google and Meta. Don't believe it? Check out the article here: https://lnkd.in/dT6qkZqW #careeradvice #promotiontips #successstrategy