Level Up Software Engineering 🚀

Level Up Software Engineering 🚀

Supercharge your career growth

15 traits of the top performing software engineers I’ve worked with

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Caleb Mellas
Mar 20, 2023
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Supercharge your career growth

Over the last 7.5 yrs of working at tech startups, here are 15 traits I’ve seen in the top performing engineers I’ve worked with 👇🏼

Work on even just a few of these to supercharge your growth and really stand out as a software engineering leader ⚡️

1. Develop a bias for action

Amazon lists having a “bias for action” as one of its core leadership principl…

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