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Discussion on: What Makes A Senior Software Engineer

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Russell Dempsey

A great high level explanation of the concerns a high level engineer should be thinking about. I think some other concerns that should be very important to a senior engineer is being a people leader, and guiding mentees and peers -- and even leaders higher up the chain -- to making better technical and non-technical decisions.

This may be too soon, but.. speaking of helping lead: A senior engineer and/or leader would be working hard to find and stop any of the harassment issues being talked about on Blind for the last two weeks.

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Kurtis Nusbaum

Absolutely. I'm actively involved with our lady eng ERG at Uber. Over the past few weeks I've been listening to a lot of stories and helping out where I can. I've also been working for better representation of diversity in the tech industry at large for several years now.