Career Guides
Start here. Each guide pulls together the articles on one topic into a clear path.
How to Get Promoted as a Software Engineer
A complete guide to engineering promotions: assessing readiness, making your case, navigating politics and managers, and deciding when to move on.
10 articles
The Software Engineer Career Path
Understand engineering levels from junior to principal — what changes at each step, the mindset shifts that unlock the next level, and the role of system design.
9 articles
Building a Career-Evidence Portfolio
How to capture, document, and keep portable evidence of your impact — brag documents, weekly habits, onboarding capture, and why it survives job changes.
6 articles
Senior Engineer Behaviors
The behaviors — not the years or the raw technical skill — that gatekeep senior and staff promotions, and how to demonstrate them deliberately.
3 articles
The Engineering Management Career Guide
Everything on the engineering management track: making the switch from senior IC, the EM levels and what changes at each, the first 90 days, and how EMs get promoted.
4 articles
The Product Management Career Guide
The product management track for technical people: breaking in from engineering, the PM career ladder, the first 90 days, and what gets senior PMs promoted.
4 articles