Learn how to get promotions and scale the career ladder as a Software Engineer
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.
Curriculum
Welcome (01:45)
What will you learn in this course? (02:55)
Who is this course for and prerequisites (01:28)
Teaching style (02:07)
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)
Course Info
Level:
Career
Duration:
6h 34m
Rating (New):
Lifetime access
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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 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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