> Okay. Well, I can keep butting my head against this wall. I had conversations with that manager where I was told in literally so many words, ‘You’re too idealistic. You don’t care enough about the bottom line. You should change your values.’ And I was like, no, nope, that’s not how this is going to work, man. Uh, outside I did the politic.
To me that's the most interesting quote of the podcast and that's the impression I had gotten before reading this quote. Sounds like they received valuable feedback along the way and ignored it on purpose.
My career lesson is that being right isn't the hard part of being a senior staff engineer. Being right isn't enough. It's building alignment across the entire org towards the right solution. That's the hard valuable problem that I'm paid to solve.
I worked on the facebook.com rewrite to React in 2019. I find this story particularly interesting.
To me that's the most interesting quote of the podcast and that's the impression I had gotten before reading this quote. Sounds like they received valuable feedback along the way and ignored it on purpose.
My career lesson is that being right isn't the hard part of being a senior staff engineer. Being right isn't enough. It's building alignment across the entire org towards the right solution. That's the hard valuable problem that I'm paid to solve.
I worked on the facebook.com rewrite to React in 2019. I find this story particularly interesting.