June 26, 2022

Measuring Your Impact – How to reach half a billion dollars

What is your value to the company you work for? Do you know it at the top of your head? How often do you measure your performance? Only during performance evaluations? Let’s talk about the importance of measuring your impact.
May 5, 2022

Salary Negotiations / Current Market Rate

My favorite trick to make sure you're getting the best offer and also to make sure you're still getting paid at the market rate is to see the current offers other engineers are getting. There are a lot of websites where engineers share the offers they get...
April 28, 2022

Perfectionism – Over Engineering

Perfectionism is always going to be your biggest enemy. We, as engineers, like to solve tough challenges, and sometimes we find ourselves trying to design the best possible system. If you've ever found yourself deep into a really complex design, you're not alone.
April 24, 2022

Trick – Productivity

Want a trick to make your day more productive? Try writing down what you’re hoping to accomplish in the morning before you start working. You'll be surprised by the difference it makes
April 6, 2022

Visibility

I’ve received following question on visibility;

I've been running a study group. Recently, one of my colleagues who just join the club decided to organize another similar club and he involve the managers as well. I feel like the new club he started has turned into a place where my colleagues will try to seek visibility from the manager as the manager will probably put this on the next update with VP that this guy runs the club etc. Is this the right move to advance the career?