<story><title>Engineer’s guide to career growth: Advice from my time at Stripe and Facebook</title><url>https://review.firstround.com/the-engineers-guide-to-career-growth-advice-from-my-time-at-stripe-and-facebook</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mertd</author><text>The article does mention this but worth noting that riding two rocket ships back to back is not going to be a typical career experience for majority of people. So this doesn&amp;#x27;t strike me as a typical career growth story.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Racing0461</author><text>Agreed. Make sure you get on apollo 11 and not the challenger.</text></comment>
<story><title>Engineer’s guide to career growth: Advice from my time at Stripe and Facebook</title><url>https://review.firstround.com/the-engineers-guide-to-career-growth-advice-from-my-time-at-stripe-and-facebook</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mertd</author><text>The article does mention this but worth noting that riding two rocket ships back to back is not going to be a typical career experience for majority of people. So this doesn&amp;#x27;t strike me as a typical career growth story.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>choppaface</author><text>One rocketship bias of this article appears to be lack of &amp;quot;focus on the customer&amp;quot; versus &amp;quot;strive to be the most valuable, but least critical.&amp;quot;  The latter can be good core advice anywhere (&amp;quot;pager duty&amp;quot; stuff at any company causes burnout for ICs and EMs) but customer traction is only really given to you on a plate at a rocketship (e.g. after Series A&amp;#x2F;B).  Most of the piece is about scaling rather than understanding the user &amp;#x2F; customer and evolving the product ... a more balanced advice essay is going to talk more about gaining, keeping, losing, and re-gaining traction versus just scaling a sprawling org.</text></comment>