New Grad to Staff at Meta in 3 years: Evan King

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2024-12-14 02:30:02

👋 Hi, this is Ryan with another edition of my weekly newsletter. Each week, I write about software engineering and career growth. Thanks to your support, we’re getting close to 100k readers (92k now!)

Today’s post is an engineering career story from Evan King who grew from a new grad to a Staff Engineer (IC6) at Meta in 3 years. He shares the top 6 principles that impacted his career most. It’s a great write-up, and I especially like the first two principles as I can relate that they were helpful for me too.

For more from Evan, I recommend you follow him on LinkedIn. He’s now the co-founder of hellointerview.com which helps swe candidates prepare for interviews. I’ve had a few friends use their system design mock interviews and they tell me how it was much more effective than reviewing resources alone. If you have upcoming software engineering interviews, I recommend you check them out (I’m not sponsored).

I've dodged telling this story for years. Maybe it's the ex-athlete in me cringing at self-promotion, or maybe I'm just uncomfortable with attention I'm not sure I deserve. But after countless requests to share it, I figured it's worth putting out there—even if it makes me squirm.