Hello. My manager asked me to come up with some initial goals for myself, some shorter term, some longer term, for our next one-on-one which is Wednesday. We are also in the middle of a mid-year review process where my self-feedback is going to be an important submission. This is going to be a bit of rambling and context but the overall question here is "what initial goals should I set with my manager?" That was prompted by me bringing up a desire for more structure in our 1-on-1s after taking Rahul's Onboarding Course. I have since also viewed the Junior->Mid-Level Course. I started a document to track the 1-on-1 discussion/action items. Some context: I'm 5 months into this job. It is a Senior SWE position. However I "feel" quite junior for three main reasons - Everyone else on the team is also senior or staff, and has been here for multiple years, often 3+ or 5+ years. - My previous jobs I was either junior or acted low-mid-level despite being senior on paper. I took tickets and worked and kept my head down. When I was given projects with larger scope/responsibility, I struggled. In retrospect I needed more coaching/mentorship/course-work in order to learn to handle that scope/responsibility. - My previous jobs never took career progress or one-on-ones seriously, nor did I unfortunately. The main areas for goals based on org eng. principles are: Leadership, Execution, Craft. Based on courses I took I'm thinking my goals could be in the areas of: velocity, code quality, increasing scope of tasks, becoming subject matter expert in the domain I'm working on which other engineers will need to learn soon, speaking up more in meetings, demoing what I'm doing in meetings or on slack more, doing decent code reviews, mentor junior engineers (except we don't have any!). I can also talk about taking advantage of company provided career mentorship program. Could talk about wanting to interview new candidates, which I'd like to do eventually.