You are not hired to just ship features

Arpit Bhayani

tinkerer, educator, and entrepreneur


You are not hired to just ship features but rather ship features that matter. All great engineers I know understand the worth of their work and the business impact it brings; this way they prioritize the tasks that matter.

Do not be a transactional engineer - given a work, get it done without thinking too much about it. Operate like you own it, almost like the CEO, ensuring things are put to completion on time and with maximum impact. A few things I highly recommend you do are

  1. understand the worth of your work
  2. prioritize work that matters to the business
  3. be responsible about your work and deliver on time
  4. if something goes wrong, own it
  5. acknowledge the help you got from your peers to get it done

When you get some work, step back and see the bigger picture. Elevate from being just a coding machine.

Arpit Bhayani

Creator of DiceDB, ex-Google Dataproc, ex-Amazon Fast Data, ex-Director of Engg. SRE and Data Engineering at Unacademy. I spark engineering curiosity through my no-fluff engineering videos on YouTube and my courses


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