Read · Sep 2025 ★★★★

Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track

by Will Larson

A very pragmatic take on the Staff Engineer role — to the point of claiming you should agree with your manager on everything (you shouldn’t!)

✅ the book is compiled from interviews with real staff engineers telling their day-to-day stories — no fiction, no padding

🅱️ the first part summarizes the interviewed engineers’ experiences, and the second part is the interviews themselves, so there’s a lot of repetition if you read both (one of the interviews has a bit about how great russky universities are — skip it carefully so you don’t get burned)