14 Navigating Your Career
A software engineer’s career arc is long. The Missing README will take you to the end of the beginning of your journey. What lies beyond is a lifetime of learning, technical leadership, and maybe even management or entrepreneurship. Regardless of your path, you must continue to grow.
While previous chapters focused on specific engineering activities, we’ll zoom out in this chapter to look at what lies ahead, give career advice, and share some closing thoughts.
To Senior and Beyond
Career ladders list job title hierarchies and describe expectations at each level. Together, the titles in a ladder form a career progression at a company. The number of levels vary from company to company, but there are usually two transitions ...
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