<story><title>Leaving LinkedIn</title><url>https://corecursive.com/leaving-linkedin-with-chris-krycho/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bgirard</author><text>&amp;gt; Okay. Well, I can keep butting my head against this wall. I had conversations with that manager where I was told in literally so many words, ‘You’re too idealistic. You don’t care enough about the bottom line. You should change your values.’ And I was like, no, nope, that’s not how this is going to work, man. Uh, outside I did the politic.&lt;p&gt;To me that&amp;#x27;s the most interesting quote of the podcast and that&amp;#x27;s the impression I had gotten before reading this quote. Sounds like they received valuable feedback along the way and ignored it on purpose.&lt;p&gt;My career lesson is that being right isn&amp;#x27;t the hard part of being a senior staff engineer. Being right isn&amp;#x27;t enough. It&amp;#x27;s building alignment across the entire org towards the right solution. That&amp;#x27;s the hard valuable problem that I&amp;#x27;m paid to solve.&lt;p&gt;I worked on the facebook.com rewrite to React in 2019. I find this story particularly interesting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chriskrycho</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s an element of truth to this! I alluded to this (and Adam totally reasonably cut even more of it for time) but I definitely was not as effective organizationally as I could have been; that is one of the major things I learned from my time at LinkedIn. The biggest challenge for DX teams remains figuring out how to (a) communicate but more importantly (b) &lt;i&gt;align&lt;/i&gt; their work with the key priorities of the business. I got to be okay at (a) but never particularly succeeded at (b) in my time at LinkedIn. Some of that is on me! Some of it… is on LinkedIn.&lt;p&gt;That said, in this case, the person telling me “You’re too idealistic” literally meant it in the sense of “You should not care about &lt;i&gt;anything&lt;/i&gt; unless it directly moves the bottom line,” and I reject that to my bones. The bottom line matters. So, though, do things like user experience, developer experience, and for that matter just basic ethics about what we build (though happily the latter wasn’t in view here).</text></comment>
<story><title>Leaving LinkedIn</title><url>https://corecursive.com/leaving-linkedin-with-chris-krycho/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bgirard</author><text>&amp;gt; Okay. Well, I can keep butting my head against this wall. I had conversations with that manager where I was told in literally so many words, ‘You’re too idealistic. You don’t care enough about the bottom line. You should change your values.’ And I was like, no, nope, that’s not how this is going to work, man. Uh, outside I did the politic.&lt;p&gt;To me that&amp;#x27;s the most interesting quote of the podcast and that&amp;#x27;s the impression I had gotten before reading this quote. Sounds like they received valuable feedback along the way and ignored it on purpose.&lt;p&gt;My career lesson is that being right isn&amp;#x27;t the hard part of being a senior staff engineer. Being right isn&amp;#x27;t enough. It&amp;#x27;s building alignment across the entire org towards the right solution. That&amp;#x27;s the hard valuable problem that I&amp;#x27;m paid to solve.&lt;p&gt;I worked on the facebook.com rewrite to React in 2019. I find this story particularly interesting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ejb999</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt;My career lesson is that being right isn&amp;#x27;t the hard part of being a senior staff engineer.&lt;p&gt;Not only that, but your own definition of &amp;#x27;right&amp;#x27; may or may not align with what is &amp;#x27;right&amp;#x27; for the people paying your salary - pretending otherwise is just silly.&lt;p&gt;In any organization, you advocate for what you believe is &amp;#x27;right&amp;#x27; the best you can, someone else (or a consensus of others) will likely decide if they agree  - you get to decide if you are willing to live with it&amp;#x2F;compromise, or move on - I have done both in my career.</text></comment>