Meor Abdul Haliim’s Post

To become a Top 1% engineer, the path is actually quite straightforward: Surround yourself with engineers who are better than you. Enjoy being the dumbest person in the room. If you're kind to others and cherish feedback as a gift, those smarter than you will teach you their ways. From there, you will quickly become the smartest person in the room. At that point, find a new room where you're dumb again and repeat the process. This is surprisingly difficult for engineers as so many of them can't push aside their own ego. But if you can win that battle, you'll grow faster than everybody else. To get to the Top 1%, you must be comfortable being in the bottom 1%.

This is a classic example of survivorship bias used as an attempt to artificially create external validity (and why engineers should probably stay in their lane when it comes to making empirical claims about domains with which they're clearly unfamiliar or actually learn the concepts from the referenced domains)...where are the empirics showing such an approach actually produces the alleged outcomes?

Occasionally playing novice allows us to sharpen our skills and reveal our blind spots and help us grow into true leaders. #Leadership #GrowthMindset #WomenInLeadership #ProfessionalDevelopment #SelfAwareness #Novice #SkillBuilding #BlindSpots #PersonalGrowth #ExecutiveLeadership

The most important thing a senior engineer can do is to mentor more junior folks and help them become senior engineers.

Yesterday I sat down with Santosh Mahendra, Lisa Gumerman, John Collins & Amrita Jain as we discussed strategies to keep engineers motivated and morale high despite what is happening in the market. Some key takeaways from the discussion: - Lead with empathy and acknowledge that we are all in this together. - When it comes to low morale, look out for the tell tale signs, build trust with your team and celebrate the small wins. - The human element is critical. - Be open, be honest and go by your mission statement and values. A recording will be published next week so stay tuned!

so you want to be a principal or distinguished engineer; be able to listen and learn from anybody on the team. ask more questions. guide the conversation. the most senior engineers know their gaps in knowledge and know others have the knowledge to contribute.

Whether we are a new engineer or an experienced engineer we will bound to learn a new process. Here are the 4 steps that I would recommend us to take to learn a new process quickly:

Just finished the course “Tech Career Skills: Moving from Developer to Engineering Manager” by Jessica Rose! 

Make yourself difficult to replace in a core engineering organisation by - Upgrading yourself with relevant skills - keeping yourself uptodate with latest knowledge - Building strong professional bonds and - being empathetic with colleagues especially juniors . There is no job problem there is mindset problem everywhere.. . agree?

Just finished the course “Tech Career Skills: Moving from Developer to Engineering Manager”