[maddynator]

So as a staff eng you will have projects that you are leading but have cross team/org dependencies.

You have to get alignment with those teams and get projects on their roadmap/sprints so you can get unblocked.

But a lot of engineers think they can just ask cross-functional teams fit with but get surprised when things don’t happen. And that’s because other team is busy and not idling.

As a staff engineer you have to figure out how you can contribute to cross-team such that they agree to the problem, let you contribute to their code base, and help them unlock you.

Its a lot of championing and relationships building that is expected at staff level.

I hope that is useful