Career Planning as an Individual Contributor Software Engineer
<p>As a Principal Software Engineer, I get to see a lot of folks joining the industry and trying to find their footing to climb the software engineering career ladder. Some people have a very clear idea of what they want from their careers and some have no idea what the next levels look like – or that there are levels above their current level.</p>
<p>See a previous article on <a href="https://medium.com/@deanberris/principal-stories-what-is-a-principal-software-engineer-fca09a893489" rel="noopener">principal software engineering</a>.</p>
<p>It’s not their fault though since a lot of companies have different ideas for what software engineers should be doing at what level.</p>
<p>Some companies that employ software engineers don’t even have software as their core product (sometimes software engineering is a pure cost centre) who then don’t put as much value into career development for potentially their most expensive resource. Some don’t even have levels for software engineers and have non-standardized structures. This leads to mismatching skills to requirements and stunted career growth.</p>
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