[henriquez]

I enjoyed this piece. One thing I’d add is handling failure. Whether it’s a business process breaking down or a server crashing, eventually every engineer will face failure conditions. How to handle these varies greatly by the situation but the most important factor is the takeaway. Being able to identify and fix patterns that can lead to failure is important, but learning from mistakes and picking your team back up is the most important lesson, because eventually everyone falls. These lessons can only be learned through experience and are a large part of what makes a “senior” engineer.