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#advice

How to learn?

Read about it.
See how others do it.
Do it by yourself.
Teach others.

#swe #senior

How do you become a Senior engineer?

Have something to show, to proof your expertise as a Senior.

Build open source, write posts, and share knowledge, and have own principles of software development, and management. Do something that you are really interested in, do things you enjoy doing/building/working on. Same as Richard did in movie "Silicon Valley".

Bring benefit and initiatives: to the team, project, do real work, make an environment where juniors work productively and grow.

Have advanced technical proficiency. Learn continuously. To imrpove your problem solving & critical thinking.

Care about quality of code, product, processes.

Think about future, scalability, dependencies, and possible project problems. It is like more about critical thinking (asking yourself - what, why, how questions).

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Don't wait, do it.

Fake it, until you make it.

#startup

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Advice to Indians moving to the USA

Meaning of "growing as an engineer" is learning new things in current project, working on things you will enjoy if you have a chance in your current project. Otherwise, learn new things outside of your project.

Moreover, outside of your work, you should work on building open-source tools and publish on GitHub. Overall, work on things/projects you enjoy working on. is needed to showcase your work during the tech. interviews, and to be different from 99% of other applicants. It is needed to proof your expertise.