Maybe now you’re convinced that engineers should do this big-picture, big-project, good-influence stuff, but here’s the problem: they can’t do it on top of the coding workload of a senior engineer. Any hour you’re writing strategy, reviewing project designs, or setting standards, you’re not coding, architecting new systems, or doing a lot of the work a software engineer might be evaluated on. If a company’s most senior engineers just write code all day, the codebase will see the benefit of their skills, but the company will miss out on the things that only they can do. This kind of technical
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