In this issue, we talk with Ryan Peterman, a Staff Engineer at Instagram who grew from new grad (L3) to Staff (L6) in three years. He writes The Developing Dev newsletter about software engineering career growth. Thank you, Ryan, for this opportunity.
Looks like an overzealous AI smoothed out the language and messed some things up. That amazon script that I'm betting was originally described as "written by hand" turned into a re-written paragraph with references like "We made edits to the hand directly in production" unless the script was actually called "the hand" in which case I would really like to know why!
What specifically do you think you did better than other engineers to go from L3 to L6 in the span of 3 years? I would think there should be some exceptional attitudes or impacts you were having consistently.
Thanks for the opportunity to be interviewed Milan!
Thank you for your time and answers!
Cool conversation! Extremely enthusiastic point of view.
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Looks like an overzealous AI smoothed out the language and messed some things up. That amazon script that I'm betting was originally described as "written by hand" turned into a re-written paragraph with references like "We made edits to the hand directly in production" unless the script was actually called "the hand" in which case I would really like to know why!
It is not AI, but Grammarly check. I will fix it, thanks on the feedback.
No problem, I was really hoping for a good story on the name :)
What specifically do you think you did better than other engineers to go from L3 to L6 in the span of 3 years? I would think there should be some exceptional attitudes or impacts you were having consistently.