Step 4 is when you become the senior engineer, show up to work in sweatpants and a dirty t-shirt with Crocs, and don’t go to meetings anymore unless it’s about major architectural decisions, and they can’t fire you because you’ve become an oracle of the company software.
Or you’re night shift and look like death and they just kind of look really guilty while they ramble on for a few minutes before mumbling that you can just go.
Step 4 is when you become the senior engineer, show up to work in sweatpants and a dirty t-shirt with Crocs, and don’t go to meetings anymore unless it’s about major architectural decisions, and they can’t fire you because you’ve become an oracle of the company software.
Or you’re night shift and look like death and they just kind of look really guilty while they ramble on for a few minutes before mumbling that you can just go.