Using Reflection

Show Notes Topics: Bit Operations, Blogging, Career Advancement, Career Responsibility, Computer Science, Failure and Learning, Interviewing, Learning, Managing Engineers, Mentoring, Sponsoring, Teamwork and Team Leadership, Trust, Web Development, Writing Companies Etsy Introduction For years, Will Gallego believed the way to advance as an engineer was to be better than those around him. In interviews, he focused on stumping candidates with arcane technical questions. As a manager, he still saw himself as an individual contributor, and shipped code without communicating. But then he joined Etsy, and realized that the senior engineers around him were helping themselves most of all by making those around them better. The culture of learning and blameless postmortems spearheaded by then-CTO John Allspaw shaped his thinking, and he began to see his past experience in a new light. Will focused on helping his colleagues succeed and was rewarded with a Staff Engineer role. Then he took it further, working