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# Engineering leadership

Staff-plus paths, team topologies, RFC culture, hiring bars, and decisions that compound.

- ["Hiring bars for senior engineers: what the bar is really made of"](/notes/hiring-bars-for-senior-engineers-what-the-bar-is-really-made-of) · Note · Every company claims a high hiring bar. Few can say what it's made of. Ask a hiring manager what distinguishes their senior bar from their mid level bar and you'll usually get vibes:…
- ["Platform team topologies: organizing for leverage, not tickets"](/notes/platform-team-topologies-organizing-for-leverage-not-tickets) · Note · Every platform team starts with the same noble intent: build the paved road so product teams can move fast. And nearly every platform team ends up in the same place: a ticket queue.…
- ["RFC culture that actually decides"](/notes/rfc-culture-that-actually-decides) · Note · Most engineering organizations have an RFC process. Few have an RFC culture. The difference: a process produces documents; a culture produces decisions. I've seen RFC repos with…
- ["Staff-plus archetypes: the four paths that actually exist"](/notes/staff-plus-archetypes-the-four-paths-that-actually-exist) · Note · Ask ten staff engineers what their job is and you'll get ten different answers — not because they're confused, but because staff plus isn't one job. It's a scope band containing several…

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