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by rufius 1394 days ago
Those aren’t the skills that would matter if you’re maximizing financial pay off.

Staff Engineer skills are where your payoff are.

Hard truth - most programming problems can be solved with most languages with varying degrees of optimal. But the language isn’t what’s separating a major project from success or failure - it’s usually aligning a bunch of humans and pushing them in the right direction.