One path goes toward management with more focus on “people stuff.” The other stays technical — Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, Architect.

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Technical Leadership is Leadership • Esther Derby

There's an assumption built into the career ladder split is that the technical path is the one that doesn’t require leading people.

Esther Derby

A Staff Engineer who raises a concern in an architecture review that causes the team to change course–that’s leadership.

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"When a Principal Engineer sets a standard for how code gets reviewed and the whole team gradually rises to it, that’s leadership." https://lttr.ai/AqPjB

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