Rising Team | Senior Software Engineer | Remote (US, Pacific Time adjacent) | Full-time
At Rising Team we are transforming how the world's leading organizations develop high-performing managers and teams. Our mission is that everyone in the workplace feels understood, supported, and empowered.
If building with AI tools like Claude Code excites you and you find yourself thinking a lot about what great, high quality AI-powered engineering looks like, please apply! It's certainly something I've been thinking about a lot.
I mentioned this in a sibling comment, but one idea I have is instead of doing this extra work which is unrecognized, you spend your extra time on gaming the presentation and appearances aspect of it. Which you might not be good at at first but would be practice and probably have compounding gains in your career. And to add an extra interesting challenge is how can you game it with high integrity.
In an attempt to have a positive framing around this, with the disclaimer that I haven't actually fully tried this, one idea might be to spend the extra time on all the politics stuff and marketing yourself and figuring out how to get in good with your manager and get promoted. And that stuff is not easy and you might not be good at it, but spending time on it is good practice and will slow you down in the areas you are good at so there's nothing to hide.
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Rising Team | Software Engineer (3+ years of experience) | Remote (USA) | Full time
Want to work at a place where you are understood, supported, and empowered to reach your goals?
We envision a world where everyone works at such a place. Our product helps teams bond together over shared experiences, practicing key leadership skills together that help teams work more effectively. We believe in empowering and supporting our employees and are looking for people who want to grow and be their best.
I've also been doing chats with engineers and engineering managers who feel stuck or uninspired. It's an area I'm interested in helping if I can as I've had a career with various ups and downs and times when I felt stuck. Feel free to reach out if you'd like to chat.
Basically absolute freedom means less freedom overall because the strongest take over. Limiting freedom (eg you can't kill others) can mean more freedom overall as more of the population are able to exercise their (limited) freedoms.
> Basically absolute freedom means less freedom overall because the strongest take over.
Am I the only one to see an interesting parallel to "copyleft" (e.g, [L]GPL) licenses (and a refutation of the "It's evil, viral, anti-free!" objections to them) here?
Rising Team | Senior and/or Lead Software Engineer | Remote (USA) | Full time
Want to work at a place where you are understood, supported, and empowered to reach your goals?
We envision a world where everyone works at such a place. Our product helps teams bond together over our shared experiences. Team members walk away feeling more connected to each other while practicing key leadership skills that help you work more effectively. We believe in empowering and supporting our employees and are looking for people who want to grow and be their best.
I've also been doing chats with engineers and engineering managers who feel stuck or uninspired. It's an area I'm interested in helping if I can as I've had a career with various ups and downs and times when I felt stuck. Feel free to reach out if you'd like to chat.
Additional thoughts:
1. Can you ask to chat informally with the person leaving and see if there's a reason they all left? Might be interesting to know. Is this only on the one team or across the company?
2. Do you know if it's the type of culture that would punish you for holding the bag if things go south or one that would reward you? If the former, I would definitely change teams/companies. If the latter, it sounds like a great opportunity. If you aren't sure, maybe chat with other people to find out.
3. As mentioned, this could be a big opportunity. You could for example say that you'd be happy to run the team if they give you 2 engineers (or whatever you think you need). I wouldn't ask for a raise/promotion in the first conversation, but it's definitely something you want to discuss fairly early.
4. Definitely set up time with your higher level manager and see what their thoughts are. I would just be really up front with them, tell them how this definitely a unique situation, find out what their plans are, and let them know what you want to do. The worst thing is if they are hand wavy and give you a vague deadline for resolving things. Try to get to specifics, and even if they don't know, they should be able to give you a plan and a rough timeline for figuring out the resolution.
Also want to mention that I'm hiring, feel free to reach out to me if you're interested (see my profile).
Rising Team | Senior and/or Lead Software Engineer | Remote (USA) | Full time
Want to work at a place where you are understood, supported, and empowered to reach your goals?
We envision a world where everyone works at such a place. If that sounds awesome and if you believe we can successfully help managers do this, it follows that we'd be a great place to work for you.
Our product helps managers with team development by giving them team building sessions in a box that grow deeper connections and improve team effectiveness based on leadership principles such as psychological safety, setting clear expectations, appreciation, and more.
Women and underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply.
We use Python and React, but you don't need those on your resume if you feel comfortable picking up new languages.
Also, as an experiment, I've been doing career chats and they have been quite rewarding so far. Feel free to reach out if you feel stuck or something's not working for you at work.
I used to work at Facebook. I understand the vitriol. It's very easy to paint that picture. It's a very one-sided picture though.
Hands down, of all the companies I've worked for, I've never met so many rank and file people who cared about doing the right thing so much. Most jobs are just jobs. People do their jobs and they get money and sometimes they try to do a good job. And there are plenty of people like that at Facebook, the majority of people are like that.
But, nowhere have I seen such a large percentage of people who actually care and who care strongly. It is honestly shocking, coming from jobs where people just do their job and avoid stirring up trouble. These people do stir up trouble. And it's hard work to fight the inertia. Sometimes they fail and become bitter and burnt out. Sometimes they succeed. And when they do they are rewarded.
So that's what I wanted to say. Facebook is a big place but people do care about doing the right thing and doing the right thing is rewarded.
Seriously, have you ever worked at a place where people (outside of leadership) care strongly about making sure the company does the right thing rather than just accepting the status quo? That's pretty rare I would say and it was very surprising to me.
I'm not saying that Facebook is good. I'm just saying that people paint it like everyone who works at Facebook made a decision to support an evil empire, which does a disservice to all the people there who are working really hard to do the right thing.
I've worked at two of the FAANG companies before as an engineer, so I have some idea of the general culture.
What I meant was that the average employee at any of them doesn't care about about doing the 'right thing' any more than employees at any other corporation care about doing the 'right thing'. I'm not saying employees at FB support an evil empire but neither are they revolutionaries who deeply care about the society and are fighting tirelessly to bring some positive change.
They know what their products do and they still work there, so I'm pretty sure they're okay with the compensation-conscience tradeoff they made and I have nothing against that, we all do that; but to paint them as some deeply caring people who tirelessly strive to do the right thing is just disingenuous and like I said earlier it sounds like something a paid PR person would write.
Yeah, you're right, I did get a bit dramatic there. This was helpful, I understand your comment now, thanks!
I want to note that like you I did say that the majority at FB don't care. I also didn't care when I started and that's why it was such a surprise that people actually did care and that it wasn't shut down by leadership. I think that is compounded by the fact that certain teams are more like that than others and I was at a stage in my life where I was ready to be influenced by that, and so I agree that I have a rosier view than is probably accurate.
At Rising Team we are transforming how the world's leading organizations develop high-performing managers and teams. Our mission is that everyone in the workplace feels understood, supported, and empowered.
If building with AI tools like Claude Code excites you and you find yourself thinking a lot about what great, high quality AI-powered engineering looks like, please apply! It's certainly something I've been thinking about a lot.
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