June 2023
Beginner
403 pages
11h 38m
English
As a staff+ engineer, much of the work involves collaborating with fellow engineers, managers, product people, business stakeholders, and others. In many cases, it isn’t you who initiates a collaboration, people come to you.
The most challenging projects are rarely hard because of the code to be written. Often, the main pain point is working with others, and the feeling this creates of “herding cats” – referring to a task that’s difficult or impossible to organize.
As you collaborate with colleagues, it’s inevitable you will get involved in internal politics to some extent, or be perceived as involved in it. Why? Because people are “political animals” by nature, according to one piece of ancient Greek wisdom. ...
