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Amy Unger
Personal blog · amyunger.com/blogcareerprogramming
Amy Unger's personal blog at amyunger.com covers career and programming. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts describing how the author worked as a Staff engineer at Heroku, spanning business, management, technical leadership and architecture. Commenters mainly discuss how the role is framed and whether it resembles an engineering manager job.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Mistakes as a Service Provider | I type for a living at GitHub 🐙 | ex-Heroku 💜 | ex-Getty Images 📸 | she & her
What Hacker News says?
Something about these articles reads so self congratulatory and aggrandizing... A lot of talk about how the author lives on the cross section of business, management, technical leadership and architecture - but literally zero mention of any measurable numbers or quantifiable impact. Little to no mention of honest disadvantages and limitations of this role. I also find it a bit strange how literally every single arti…
Comment linking /
on “How I operated as a Staff engineer at Heroku (2020)”Submitted How I operated as a staff engineer at Heroku as a story · 380 points
HN discussionhttps://amyunger.com/blog/2020/09/10/staff-engineer-at-herok... Based on how time is being spent that sounds an awful lot like an EM role to me? Like EM responsibilities minus actual humans reporting to you?
Comment linking /blog/2020/09/10/staff-engineer-at-heroku.html
on “How I operated as a Staff engineer at Heroku (2020)”Submitted How I operated as a Staff engineer at Heroku (2020) as a story · 173 points
HN discussionSubmitted Things I learned interviewing for Staff positions (2020) as a story · 82 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Doubt as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted My team is too senior. How am I supposed to be promoted? (2021) as a story · 2 points
HN discussion