How To Stand Out Without Trying Hard (From A Principal Engineer At Amazon)

I'll save everyone the time, what gets you promoted? Fastest is just being part of a growing company. As they hire more new Junior people, you will get promoted to oversee them. This is how most of the principal and staff engineers I work with got to where they are.

This is why you should change jobs every 3 years 😂

8:41 gotta disagree. Burnout happens when you care about what you do, but are blocked and mismanaged to the point of being ineffective.

"It's not about what you know. It's about how quickly you can learn new things"

TLDR: - Learn to learn quickly - Show ramp up potential

1. Recover from a mess up quickly and build trust as a high potential person 2. Taking ownership and doing more than bare minimum, seeming like you care about the work 3. Learn knew things quickly: You don’t know everything about everything : high potential people are super selective about what they target and put everything into getting up to speed quickly.

How dare he suggest that Perl is "ancient and terrible"! Perl is black magic, arcane arts of functional programming 🧙‍♂️

As a leetcoder, when I hear Alice and Bob I run....

Visit https://strawberry.me/alifeengineered today to claim your $50 credit. 📈Transform your tech career with my free weekly newsletter - https://alifeengineered.substack.com/ 💥 Continue the conversation on my Discord server with like-minded ambitious tech professionals. #accountability is **chef's kiss** and #wins is motivating - https://discord.gg/HFVMbQgRJJ 🚀 Get my in-depth promotion video course ($10,000 value) absolutely free 👉 https://geni.us/TakeYourPromotion

You dropped a Golden Nugget of wisdom in this video in passing. And that is. " The best way to avoid burnout is to care about your work."