Name: Onboarding Tips For Senior+ Engineers
Uploaded: 2024-03-18T18:58:12+00:00
Duration: 6 min 37 s
Description: As a Senior Engineer (or Staff or Principal) coming into a new company, there will be some expectation that you are brin

Onboarding Tips For Senior+ Engineers

As a Senior Engineer (or Staff or Principal) coming into a new company, there will be some expectation that you are bringing in domain knowledge. Your opinion can be valuable. A few ways to have immediate impact:

- Contrast how your current company operates compared to past companies
- Ask questions about why certain processes exist or don't exist

As you ramp up, remember to "**respect what came before.**" You don't want to disparage existing systems without realizing that it was best designed at the time of construction with the constraints and knowledge *at the time*.

As a senior engineer, you also need to lay the foundation for team and org-level impact. This means you invest extra time in building relationships and meeting other senior/staff/principal engineers.

Senior Engineer video from krazam: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSqexFg74F8>

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