November 12, 2025
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes
Being a leader who engineers enjoy working with can open doors and improve team performance.
Early on in a software engineer’s career, the main focus and gauge of productivity is raw output. How many pull requests do you average per week? How many bugs do you fix a year? And what is your track record at implementing features on time?
This is a sensible focus as you begin your journey, but as people progress from individual contributors (ICs) through to technical leads (TLs), it begins to cause a conflict in your day-to-day.
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November 12, 2025
