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Principal Engineer's Toolkit: Building Trust (From L8 SWE at Microsoft)

2022-07-30 People & Blogs
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If you want to grow into a principal level engineer, or if you are already a principal engineer and looking for ways to improve, you need to know how to build trust. Blog post: https://medium.com/tech-career/principal-engineers-toolkit-building-trust-4641fede7959 0:00 Intro 0:55 Why build trust 2:42 Trust is a battery 4:01 Charging the battery 5:48 Trust before influence 6:45 Who you build trust with 7:57 Outro

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@ArpanAsawa 2022-07-30

Amazing video as always! Glad to know you are at Microsoft! I also spent 10.5 years of my career at this amazing company! I'm at Snowflake now. If you don't mind answering, have you always been at Microsoft? If not, which companies did you work at? Which division at Microsoft you are now? Also have you read Leading without Authority by Keith Ferrazzi? Amazing book that I'd recommend for any L63+ struggling to increase their influence. Specially the part on building trust between others. I'm learning to apply the book at my job as well. Building trust takes time. Very precise advice on how to build trust: Keep your promises.

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@McBritish 2022-07-30

Even though I'm still a junior I still feel like I can learn and apply these videos to my own life. Also... I like how the numbers in front of your tower are always relevant to the video! 😂

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@navadiaev 2023-01-07

Hi Kun, your videos are a gold mine for software engineers of all levels. Could not thank you enough. Your videos are almost perfect for the target audience [better microphone will make them 100/100].

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@jordanhasnolife5163 2022-07-31

Love the PC in the back as well! That Geil ram is awesome haha!

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@sogoojo 2022-07-31

Great video! you mentioned in one of your videos that you tansitioned from being a manager back to IC. was this at same company/unit? Or across?

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