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It takes more than just years of experience to become a senior software engineer — among the prerequisites are having a good marketing sense, interviewing skills and other personal qualities required to become one as well. In this The New Stack Makers podcast, guests Swizec Teller, author and a senior software engineer for healthcare company Tia, and Shawn Wang, head of developer experience for microservices orchestration platform provider Temporal.io, describe the mindset and other attributes required to become a senior engineer.

you can view it as the y-axis is building and the x-axis is telling people about it,” Wang said. And you have to do both to have the largest possible luck surface area for things to happen to you.” To progress in your career as an engineer, it is not about only how talented a software engineer or coder you are, but what your value is for your employers.

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