The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change

I was recommended this book from a colleague, and it's very good. I have been in tech professionally for over 10 years, and learned many things from this book - and how to formulate what I already knew even better. 10/10, and i dont even like reading tech books usually!

I ran a book discussion at work with a number of like minded co-workers. Everyone found it extremely valuable. Initially I didn't think lower level engineers would get anything out of it, but now I think developers of all levels should read it. It helped me by providing a framework against which I could evaluate my own position and career goals. We're taking a brief break for the summer, but will return to do a deeper dive on some of the chapters that resonated with us.

I am an SEII and I read this book every morning before my daily standups. I always find relating stories. I am learning a lot for my future self from this book. A must read for anyone who intends to grow.

According to Sandro Mancuso, there are 4 kinds of books we have read to advance our careers:1- Technology-specific books are very valuable but they expire.2- Conceptual books are the books that give us the foundation to advance in our careers.3- Behavioral books are the books that make us more efficient when working in teams and organizing ourselves.4- Revolutionary books (some call them classics) are the ones that changed the way we work.We should favor conceptual and behavioral books for long-term career progression, starting with the revolutionary ones and read technology-specific books for short and medium-term plans.Tanya's book is a technology-agnostic, conceptual & behavioral book at the same time and to me already revolutionary. It has all the elements to change the way we work as an industry.I read the early release of this book on O’Reilly back in April and I have been catching up on every new chapter as Tanya wrote them. I have accumulated hundreds of notes and highlights useful not only to Staff Engineers, but to Directors of Engineering like myself and to be honest to any Engineering Leadership role.Can’t recommend this book strongly enough!

This book is filled with gems for any software engineer with some experience to excel and expand their influence as they grow as leaders. I refer to this book quite often for myself and as I mentor other engineers.

I’ve been in the software industry for about ten years. A lot of what’s mentioned in this book makes sense in hindsight, and I feel like I was on the cusp of really getting a lot of this knowledge eventually. However, this book really drove it home for me!

Very interesting book with a lot of good practical examples. The book covers all aspects of Staff+ (IC) engineering. In addition, it has a lot of excellent references to other articles, blogs, and books. The book doesn't have to be read from beginning to end. You can read chapters in any order.I recommend reading this book if you are new to the Staff+ path. Even though this book targets Staff+ engineers, there is a lot of wisdom for any level of developers.

I’m not a software engineer but I’m an engineer that works a lot with IT. But the content of this book is extremely relevant to my everyday work. I am very glad I purchase this book in my early stage of engineer career. It’s a perfect guide for me to plan my career development as well as evaluate the people I’m working with.

As i just got into a tech lead position, i was recommended to read this and found it very interesting. Definitely getting some lessons from the book into my professional life.

The book itself is great intro for staff engineers and those who aspire to be one.However, the print quality is pretty bad. Text is just not as crisp, especially in places where it's bold. Maybe I got a bad copy.

I am a Senior Technical Artist in the Game Dev industry trying to figure out what is "the next step" for me as I don't want to go down the manager track. This book is THE BIBLE for individual contributors and a must-read for anyone - manager or IC - who care about their career in IT.

I believe soft skills are terribly underestimated for senior software engineers, this book will teach you everything you need to know to be successful as a st

The media could not be loaded. The content is definitely awesome.However, there are missing pages all over the place. As you can see in the video, pages 45-52, 69-76 are nowhere to be found, while some pages keep showing up repeatedly.I’ve only gone through the first chapters but have found too many problems, and more importantly, the content isn’t complete for anybody to read.