The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups

This book will be useful for both beginner programmers and experienced ones.Here, you will find actionable advices that you can use from day one to improve your performance as an engineer and build a successful career in any company.Starting with a general overview of engineering skills, the book then advances to different career paths: senior engineer, tech lead, and staff+ people. For each stage, Gergely explains a set of key competencies you need to develop and care for to be effective.I wish I had such a book in the beginning of my IT path. For now, it is the best IT book of 2024 for me.

It is a career-focused book with great tips for junior to staff-level engineers. I would highly recommend it!(There are some minor typos at one or two places, but overall good book.)

if you are a software engineer, it is a good book for you.While the material is not ground breaking, it can be very helpful and insightful for different level of engineers, especially juniors.

While your company may already embrace many of the best practices outlined in this book, the unique insights and strategies it offers can differentiate you and propel your success even further.

If you join big tech, this book will save you 2 years of cultural learning, it will also guide you to much more productive career growth talks. Can't recommend it more!Great job Gergely!

As a team lead dev, I can say its very easy to read. And you will learn a lot. Overall very good book

Thoroughly enjoying the content and coverage in this text!

I didn't find much new in the book, which felt like it could have used expansion and some heavy editing for both content and typos. One challenge for the book is that it isn't clear who the target audience is; I could see this being very helpful to someone who is at the very beginning of their software engineering career, but it spends quite a bit of time talking about Senior engineers and getting promoted to Staff Engineer. That's fine, but what Staff or Sr level engineer is going to benefit from a ten page overview of testing or system design? If it's a technical book for mid-career engineers, it needs less breadth and more depth on technical topics. If it's a career book, focus on that and skip the mini overview of DDD.I hope there's a second, edited edition that refines the text towards a target audience. That said, I'm planning to pass along my copy to a new engineer that I mentor - I think they will get something from it.