Senior Staff Engineer (L7) Describes Most Important Skill - Rahul Malik

Rahul is a Senior Staff Engineer at Meta.

• Most important skill: dealing with ambiguity and working through others. Senior Staff Engineers operate in a broad space, so they have to be independent enough to make impact without a specific problem.
• Advice: figure out how decisions are made. Who makes the decisions, and what is the underlying value system?

Here's the full playlist asking engineers what the most important skill is for their level: Asking 7 Levels Of Engineers The Most Important Skill

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• SWE2 --> Principal Eng in 4 years
• Taro's top 10 to get promoted from senior to staff engineer
• David Pan on what makes a great tech lead
• Rahul on LinkedIn