Metadata
- Authors: Titus Winters Tom Manshreck Hyrum Wright
- Full Title:: Software Engineering at Google
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- URL:: https://readwise.io/reader/document_raw_content/2772500
- Finished date:: 2023-06-08
Highlights
Always Be Leaving (View Highlight)
quote from Bharat Mediratta, a former Google engineering director (View Highlight)
it’s not just your job to solve an ambiguous problem, but to get your organization to solve it by itself, without you present. If you can do that, it frees you up to move to a new problem (or new organization), leaving a trail of self- sufficient success in your wake. (View Highlight)
You’re gradually forced to become “higher level.” That is, you’re less and less able to get into the technical or engineering details of things, and you’re being pushed to go “broad” rather than “deep.” At every step, this process is frustrating: you mourn the loss of these details, and you come to realize that your prior engineering expertise is becoming less and less relevant to your job. Instead, your effectiveness depends more than ever on your general technical intuition and ability to galvanize engineers to move in good directions. (View Highlight)
“the three Always of leadership”: Always Be Deciding, Always Be Leaving, Always Be Scaling. (View Highlight)