individual contributor

“If you're an individual contributor and you're not at a 10 person company, I would say don't try to force the organizational change. Organizational change is such a hard and messy problem. I feel like what I would do in that situation is I would just change th…”

“There are very few people who are able to execute extremely well and more than one thing. And it's especially true for individual contributors.”

“You have all these individual contributors who love you, but then they also work with these big companies and these big orgs, and they become these internal champions who spearhead adoption within their organizations and eventually turn into large amounts of r…”

“Things that makes us a lot more likely to be successful is that your, I see there's a tool and they can use it on their own. And it's technical. I think that helps a ton.”

“Until two years ago, individual contributors didn't have levels at Netflix. So all engineers were just senior engineers. All data scientists were senior data scientists. And we did not have a leveling system. We introduced IC levels two years ago, almost exact…”

“There's also another layer to this, which is as you go down in seniority, you're less likely to recommend your role. So execs, VPs, maybe even directors are sort of more likely to recommend their role than people who are crises.”