Career: Getting Promoted as a Software Engineer

Learn how to get promotions and scale the career ladder as a Software Engineer

About This Course

We all want to get promoted in our jobs and scale the career ladder. It can, however, seem like a very hard task, but thankfully, there are techniques and practices you can follow to make sure you get your dream promotion. In this course, Microsoft Principal Software Engineering Manager, Nick Cosentino, and Yelp Engineering Manager, Ryan Murphy, will teach you everything you need to know to get your well-deserved promotion and ensure that you can navigate the corporate hell that might come with making a case. This course was created by two engineering managers who interviewed hundreds of engineers and helped them get their promotion.

Course Curriculum

6h 34m 9 sections

Welcome

01:45 Free preview

What will you learn in this course?

02:55 Free preview

Who is this course for and prerequisites

01:28 Free preview

Teaching style

02:07 Free preview

What Career Growth Looks Like

16:30

IC vs Management

16:01

Promotions Across The Board

10:55

Role of Competency Frameworks

10:57

Why Progression Can Stall

19:35

Balancing Technical and Non-Technical Skills

21:05

Expectations

13:04

Developing Tech Skills

11:25

Soft Skills For Mid Level

09:42

Assessing Your Readiness

09:41

Expectations

09:37

Building Influence

09:43

Leading Projects

10:12

Soft Skills for Seniors

13:29

Mapping Your Path

20:58

Expectations

14:46

Vision, Strategy and Metrics

09:38

Soft Skills

06:13

Approaching Problem Spaces

14:45

What Is It and Why Is It Important?

07:05

Keeping Track Of Your Wins

15:24

Managing Up and Around

11:38

Internal Mentors At The Role You Want

04:50

Promotion Doc Walkthrough

19:07

Working With You

05:14

You Need To Own It

05:52

Not A Checkbox Exercise

06:16

The Review Process

12:48

Interpreting And Handling Feedback

06:43

Action Plan And Maintaining Alignment

12:34

Example of Delivering Feedback

12:22

Internal Vs External Promotion

07:07

Course conclusion

00:42

Meet Your Instructor

Nick Cosentino

Nick Cosentino

Nick Cosentino is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft and a .NET content creator. He manages the teams responsible for deploying the hundreds of services supporting the Microsoft365 suite of products to serve users across the planet. Nick brings his unique experiences to the Big Tech world having worked at a startup that scaled from a handful of employees to hundreds before it went public.

Nick runs a software engineering and dotnet-focused blog as well as a YouTube channel called Dev Leader. While he enjoys solving complex problems with software solutions, Nick is passionate about reducing barriers for people to get started on their software engineering journey.

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Ryan Murphy

Ryan Murphy

Ryan Murphy is an experienced Engineering Manager at Yelp, content creator, writer and speaker. He currently leads the teams responsible for all the infrastructure behind reliable and safe purchasing. His career has typically seen him either working on trading platforms at large financial institutions or implementing scalable infrastructure behind advertising.
Ryan’s goal is to level-up the next generation of software engineering leadership, where there is currently little on offer for training and learning those new skills.

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