High Growth Engineer

High Growth Engineer

Mentorship’s Role in my Staff Promotion

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Hey everyone, Jordan here 👋!

I’m so pleased to share that today’s post comes from Ryan Peterman, who is a Staff Software Engineer at Instagram that grew from junior (L3) to staff (L6) in just 3 years. He’s had work publicly recognized by Zuck and regularly writes about software engineering at the Developing Dev. You can also follow him on LinkedIn.

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Sharing software engineering career stories to help you accelerate your career. Hosted by ex-Staff engineer at Instagram
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