Orosz Gergely. The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups

Pragmatic Engineer BV, 2023. — 416 p. — ISBN-10 908338182X; ISBN-13 978-9083381824.In my first few years as a developer I assumed that hard work was all I needed. Then I was passed over for a promotion and my manager couldn’t give me feedback on what areas to improve, so I could get to the senior engineer level. I was frustrated; even bitter: not as much about missing the promotion, but because of the lack of guidance.By the time I became a manager, I was determined to support engineers reporting to me with the kind of feedback and support I wish I would have gotten years earlier. And I did. While my team tripled over the next two years, people became visibly better engineers, and this progression was clear from performance reviews and promotions.This book is a summary of the advice I’ve given to software engineers over the years – and then some more.