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Lucas Faria's avatar

One question I always ask when looking at this promo for smaller companies.

At what point does it make sense to actually have a staff engineer on a team?

Given staff is very focused on helping others scale, I’m curious when it makes sense to have someone dedicated to that in early stage companies.

Do you need a necessary headcount, or is it more about how does a person spends their day?

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The Prairie Programmer's avatar

Great article! A lot of the points made here are relevant in organizations that already have a staff engineer position / role and trying to move up the ladder. What about situations in which you are thinking of moving into a staff engineer position with another company? Is that something you see often or just very difficult to do?

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