Talk:Wikimedia Engineering/Careers

A short note
I saw this presentation making the rounds in my RSS feeds recently, and it offers another view on the topics mentioned here. I haven't looked at it very closely, but I thought I'd share the link. guillom 13:58, 20 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Nice slides! Most of the sentiment in there applies to WMF too I think, though – as for countermeasures – some proposals may be difficult to implement or have other downsides. --Nemo 09:22, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

Tech lead
Thanks for the update. Do we really now have "tech lead" as additional layer across the org? The link is only about one team and isn't very explicative: I assume the term doesn't make sense outside that team? New titles always come with a (social/interaction) cost, so their benefit must be made clear if they're made into a "standard". --Nemo 20:50, 18 December 2014 (UTC)


 * It's a rôle that all or almost all of the teams have had for a long time – off the top of my head, I know Collaboration, Editing, Fundraising Tech, Mobile Web, Mobile iOS App, Mobile Android App, Parsoid, Services, and Front-End Standardisation all have a tech lead. Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 21:01, 18 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Which looks like a small part of Engineering. Do they have a shared definition? If yes, it should be in a generic page. --Nemo 21:06, 18 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Everyone except Operations and MW-core is not "a small part". :-) Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 21:07, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

On Being A Senior Engineer
I found this post helpful.