<story><title>Show HN: A Senior Engineer&apos;s CheckList</title><text>Sharing something that I wrote for my use but I think can be useful to others (I am an engineer with the title of Senior Software Engineer)&lt;p&gt;Visit [1] for a full list (table view gives a lot of options. See &amp;quot;Controls&amp;quot;). 
Visit [2] for a summary.
The source of the list is at [3]&lt;p&gt;1. https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;littleblah.com&amp;#x2F;post&amp;#x2F;2019-09-01-senior-engineer-checklist&amp;#x2F;&lt;p&gt;2. https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@littleblah&amp;#x2F;my-top-25-items-in-a-senior-engineers-checklist-c8e9f9f6e3c2&lt;p&gt;3. https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;littleblah&amp;#x2F;senior-engineer-checklist&lt;p&gt;Feedbacks&amp;#x2F;Pull requests solicited :)</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>xxpor</author><text>I wonder where people work where they can become a senior engineer in the first place without getting involved in hiring.</text></item><item><author>notTyler</author><text>&amp;#x27;Get involved with hiring for your team and company, and maintain a high bar for hiring quality candidates.&amp;#x27;&lt;p&gt;Posts derailing this &amp;#x27;high bar&amp;#x27; are posted semi-daily to Hacker News, no?  It&amp;#x27;s a really big dilemma (extensive hiring process that weeds out good candidates due to time and frustration or take risks) and it makes it sound like it&amp;#x27;s just something, you can, you know, do on a Tuesday in your spare time, and then on Wednesday you can solve the architecture problem.&lt;p&gt;And that&amp;#x27;s pretty much this list summed up.  It&amp;#x27;s nice on paper, and maybe it will make a difference if someone consults it when making tough decisions.  Thanks for your effort.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>EnderMB</author><text>This is probably far more common than we&amp;#x27;d like to admit.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve certainly worked in places where they&amp;#x27;d rather I didn&amp;#x27;t get involved in the hiring process. These kind of places often heavily relied on external recruitment, and would rather that I spend my time working on projects than potentially rejecting candidates that could do the job, but weren&amp;#x27;t up to my standard.&lt;p&gt;These aren&amp;#x27;t non-tech companies either - these are companies that deal in&amp;#x2F;sell tech as a project and&amp;#x2F;or service. Even in companies that live and die by their development team, non-technical management can run the show and dictate hiring.</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: A Senior Engineer&apos;s CheckList</title><text>Sharing something that I wrote for my use but I think can be useful to others (I am an engineer with the title of Senior Software Engineer)&lt;p&gt;Visit [1] for a full list (table view gives a lot of options. See &amp;quot;Controls&amp;quot;). 
Visit [2] for a summary.
The source of the list is at [3]&lt;p&gt;1. https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;littleblah.com&amp;#x2F;post&amp;#x2F;2019-09-01-senior-engineer-checklist&amp;#x2F;&lt;p&gt;2. https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@littleblah&amp;#x2F;my-top-25-items-in-a-senior-engineers-checklist-c8e9f9f6e3c2&lt;p&gt;3. https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;littleblah&amp;#x2F;senior-engineer-checklist&lt;p&gt;Feedbacks&amp;#x2F;Pull requests solicited :)</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>xxpor</author><text>I wonder where people work where they can become a senior engineer in the first place without getting involved in hiring.</text></item><item><author>notTyler</author><text>&amp;#x27;Get involved with hiring for your team and company, and maintain a high bar for hiring quality candidates.&amp;#x27;&lt;p&gt;Posts derailing this &amp;#x27;high bar&amp;#x27; are posted semi-daily to Hacker News, no?  It&amp;#x27;s a really big dilemma (extensive hiring process that weeds out good candidates due to time and frustration or take risks) and it makes it sound like it&amp;#x27;s just something, you can, you know, do on a Tuesday in your spare time, and then on Wednesday you can solve the architecture problem.&lt;p&gt;And that&amp;#x27;s pretty much this list summed up.  It&amp;#x27;s nice on paper, and maybe it will make a difference if someone consults it when making tough decisions.  Thanks for your effort.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dagw</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been a &amp;quot;senior&amp;quot; engineer for years, in that time I&amp;#x27;ve read through a few dozen CVs, sat in on 2 interviews, and had final say in hiring of exactly zero people. I suspect the same is true for at least half the senior people here, unless they also happen to managers.</text></comment>