<story><title>The other kind of staff software engineer</title><url>https://earthly.dev/blog/line-staff/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adamgordonbell</author><text>Author here. Working at a tech company as a developer vs working at a non-tech company are very different.&lt;p&gt;These two types of roles were called line vs staff when I took a business school class and I think the differences between these two types of roles have a big impact on what the job is like, even if doing the same type of work. It&amp;#x27;s a bit confusing because it overlaps with &amp;#x27;staff software engineer&amp;#x27; term.&lt;p&gt;I recall hearing stats before that the vast majority of developers work at non-tech companies, but I almost never hear their stories. They are the dark matter of software developers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anoy8888</author><text>I am a Staff software engineer in a consumer goods company. I got quickly promoted to it manger , head of it and then CIO. The tech is shallow but it exposes me to production, supply chain , sales , finance and pretty much every aspect of the operations. I report directly to CEO. We typically buy erp but small softwares , I choose to write myself so that I got some practice on coding. I go to home before 6 and enjoy my weekends</text></comment>
<story><title>The other kind of staff software engineer</title><url>https://earthly.dev/blog/line-staff/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adamgordonbell</author><text>Author here. Working at a tech company as a developer vs working at a non-tech company are very different.&lt;p&gt;These two types of roles were called line vs staff when I took a business school class and I think the differences between these two types of roles have a big impact on what the job is like, even if doing the same type of work. It&amp;#x27;s a bit confusing because it overlaps with &amp;#x27;staff software engineer&amp;#x27; term.&lt;p&gt;I recall hearing stats before that the vast majority of developers work at non-tech companies, but I almost never hear their stories. They are the dark matter of software developers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; They are the dark matter of software developers.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;That reminds me of an article that was linked from here, a couple of years ago, titled “IT Runs On Java 8”[0].&lt;p&gt;I worked for hardware manufacturers, for most of my career, and can report that it’s even worse.&lt;p&gt;That’s because the company does have an engineering culture, but one with drastically different priorities and processes.&lt;p&gt;Our software shops were expected to run in hardware patterns.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;vickiboykis.com&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;it-runs-on-java-8&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;vickiboykis.com&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;it-runs-on-java-8&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>