Build a network of peers.

This is a draft guide for staffeng.com.

As I talk to more and more Staff-plus engineers about career advice, the most consistent recommendation was to develop a personal network of peers doing similar work. Not every person emphasized this approach, but more than half mentioned it and for those who did it tended to be their first and strongest recommendation.

Ritu Vincent said,

What’s been most impactful for me is having a lot of people who I think of as mentors, usually friends, former manag...