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Skill

💥 Impact (Engineering)

The size, scope and value of what you deliver

💥 Impact (Engineering)

Level 1

  • Delivers assigned tasks, working with a more senior team member, and able to take PR feedback to improve their work

  • Independently works on small, low-impact, well-defined task

  • Looks to optimise existing work (eg Processes, procedures, products, etc)

Level 2

  • Delivers assigned tasks that meet expected criteria

  • Works for the team, focuses on tasks that contribute to team goals

  • Tries to unblock themselves first before seeking help

  • Manages their own time effectively, prioritises their workload well, on time for meetings, aware when blocking others and unblocks

  • Helps the team, does what needs doing

  • Breaks down small/medium problems into iterative steps

  • Delivers small, well-defined tasks/projects

  • Delegates low-impact problems to solve

Level 3

  • Delivers large well-defined tasks and solves small scope not-well-defined problems

  • Contributes to writing proposals (Co-authors with more experienced Engineer)

  • Breaks down large problems into smaller iterative steps across multiple PRs

  • Identifies problems to solve

  • Owns the implementation of the solution

Level 4

  • Solves ambiguous problems

  • Leads writing small/medium scope proposals

  • Thrown at fires and resolves / contributes heavily to resolving them

  • Makes pragmatic choices about taking on tech debt

  • Considers multiple different solutions for solving a problem

  • Breaks down projects into smaller iterative steps that each deliver value

  • Can take a long-term vision and define building blocks to get there

Level 5

  • Solves the 'hard problem' in a project and sees it through to resolution

  • Solves larger ambiguous problems

  • Leads incident resolutions

  • Makes judgements about when to diverge from the immediate goal to achieve something else

  • Leading large scale technical infrastructure projects

  • Leads writing large scope proposals

  • Breaks down large long-lasting projects into sensible discrete chunks that compound to achieve a large goal

  • Helps prioritise and balance short-term and long-term investments, focusing on high impact, high value work

  • Understands the big picture and integrates company goals into their area

Level 6

  • Accountable for delivery of large, mission critical engineering projects

  • Originates or finishes large, horizontal engineering efforts

  • Is the accountable exec for high-impact projects

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